CA Form 540 and Federal forms 8995 and 8960

What?!?!  How can this be??  My returns are backing up also.  INTUIT!!!!  DO SOMETHING!!!!

Would not surprise me if this is being done to eventually get rid of Lacerte and offer basically ProSeries by stating after tax season that they had some real problems with the program and will not offer it next year but will give you a reduced price on ProSeries for one year.

currently the CA form 540 is unavailable and I called tech support and asked if we could bypass the system and print it out but they could not do it.  I currently have 10 tax returns that cannot be processed which is creating a cash flow problem for me.  I was able to complete 5 tax returns from Arizona, Nevade and Oregon but not the 10 California tax returns.  The year 2025 was not a good year for many of my clients with some of them still not being able to pay me for their 2024 Income Tax returns.  This delay is very hurtful.  My daughter in law who I work with says that the FTB form 540 is approved on the California FTB site so I am confused as to why the delay.  This is very frustrating to say the least. .  

CA forms have been final and are being utilized by all the other software companies that I have inquired of.  They have been able to file forms since opening day, with the exception of a couple forms that were not final for a day or two. Lacerte has not done the scheduled update for yesterday, 2/4/2025.  LACERTE IS NOW PROJECTING THAT THE NEXT UPDATE WILL NOT BE UNTIL AT LEAST THE 10TH OF FEBRUARY.  At least one of their other, if not 2 out of the 4,  tax software packages have the forms for CA and people are able to file and Print entire returns no problem.  

THIS IS 100% A LACERTE ISSUE.  The fact that they did not send out yesterdays scheduled update AND they have not sent any information to those of us that have bought this product, is more than negligent.  Bad business to treat their customers so unprofessionally.  I have been using this product for over 35 years.  We will finally be making an exodous this year.  It is one thing to blow it or have issues, but it is entirely another to leave us all hanging without any information AND to make the updated forms available for their other software packages.  They obviously do not value their Lacerte customers.

Hello All, thanks for posting in the Community about the release of the forms. We have an update about Form 540 for Lacerte. The 540 and sch CA but not Sch CA NR will be available for printing later today in the program.