Michigan state tax filings.

Who you deal with in Michigan

3 separate agencies, on 3 separate systems. Doing something with one does nothing to the others.

What Michigan does differently

• Two forms, two agencies, and no crossover. Form 163 goes to Treasury. UIA 1772 goes to the Unemployment Insurance Agency. Filing one tells the other nothing, and a business that files only Form 163 keeps an open unemployment account.
• Zero returns keep coming until the form is filed. Michigan is explicit that Form 163 is what stops the requirement, so a business that stopped selling and stopped filing has been accruing missed returns rather than quietly winding down.
• The paper route needs two schedules nobody mentions. Filing Form 518 on paper for unemployment purposes requires Schedule A, the Liability Questionnaire, and Schedule B, the Successorship Questionnaire. A 518 arriving without them is incomplete for the UI side.
• One form covers a lot, which cuts both ways. Sales, use, withholding, corporate income tax, and unemployment all sit on Form 518. Ticking a box you do not need creates a filing obligation that outlives the decision, because Michigan expects zero returns until the account is discontinued.

Filings we handle in Michigan

You keep the client. We never email them.