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Tax Information and Assistance

Self Service Options

A Note About Debts

The Michigan Department of Treasury (Treasury) offers

By law, any money you owe to the State and other State

a variety of services designed to assist you, and most are

agencies must be deducted from your refund or credit

available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

before it is issued. Debts include: money you owe for past-

due taxes, student loans, child support due the Friend of

IMPORTANT: To obtain information about your account

the Court, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) levy, money

using the Internet and Telephone Options listed below,

due a State agency, a court-ordered garnishment, or other

you will need the following information from your return:

court orders.

Taxpayers who are married, filing jointly,

• Social Security number (SSN) of the primary filer (the

may receive an Income Allocation to Non-Obligated Spouse

filer listed first on the return)

(Form 743) after the return is filed. Completing and filing

• Tax year of the return

this form may limit the portion of the refund that can be

• Adjusted gross income (AGI) or total household

applied to a debt. If Treasury applies all or part of your

resources

refund to any of these debts, you will receive a letter of

• Filing status (single, married filing jointly, married

explanation.

filing separately).

DHS/FIP Benefits Worksheet

If you received Family Independence Program (FIP)

Internet Options

assistance or other Department of Human Services (DHS)

benefits in 2013, you will need to complete the FIP/DHS

Find the following information on this Web site:

Benefits Worksheet on page 8. Carry the amount from your

• Current year forms and instructions

Worksheet to line 33 on your MI-1040CR-2.

• Answers to many tax preparation questions

Completing Your Forms

• Most commonly used tax forms

• Free assistance in preparing your return

Review your claim and make sure it is complete. Check for

• Other tax resources.

the following common errors that may delay your refund:

• Illegible writing.

• Transposing numbers in the Social Security number.

This secure Web site was designed specifically to protect

• Entering figures on the wrong lines.

your personal tax information. Use this Web site to:

• Computation errors.

• Check the status of your return

• Filling in the lines if they do not apply to you or if the

• Check estimated payments you made during the year

amount is zero.

• Omitting the taxable value of your homestead.

• Check the status of letters you have sent to Treasury

• Omitting the school district code.

• Change your address

• Failing to report total household resources from all

• Ask a specific question about your account.

sources, both taxable and nontaxable, on the property tax

credit claim.

Telephone Options

• Leaving the FIP blank (line 26), entering the wrong

(517) 636-4486

amount of FIP assistance, or entering the total household

Automated Information Service

resources subtotal on this line.

With Treasury’s automated phone system, you can:

• Reporting two years of property taxes or special

• Request the status of your refund

assessments.

• Check the status of letters you have sent to Treasury

• Filing multiple returns for the same tax year. Do not staple

• Request information on estimated payments

multiple year returns together.

• Order current tax year forms.

• Filing only one page of the form (the MI-1040CR-2 is a

three-page form, all pages must be filed).

While most questions can be answered by the Automated

Information Service, customer service representatives are

Where to Mail Your Claim

available from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Mail your claim to:

Assistance is available using TTY through the Michigan

Michigan Department of Treasury

Relay Service by calling 1-800-649-3777 or 711. Printed

Lansing, MI 48956

material in an alternate format may be obtained by calling

Do not mail your 2013 claim in the same envelope with a

(517) 636-4486.

claim for any other tax year or the processing of your 2013

claim will be delayed. Mail your 2013 claim in a separate

Additional Help

envelope. Do not staple claims together.

If you need help completing your credit form, contact your

local senior citizen center or community service agency to

find out if a volunteer tax assistance program is available.

Form Mi-1040cr2 - Michigan Homestead Property Tax Credit Claim For Veterans And Blind People Instructions - 2013 Page 2

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