This year the State of Texas changed its filing requirement so that we no longer have to file the "No Tax Due" reports. We must only submit the Public Information Reports. However, on a few of my clients Lacerte is automatically choosing the "EZ Computation Report" (Form 05-169) and it should not be doing this. Is there a way to correct this or override this in Lacerte?
We ran into the same issue on returns with zero gross receipts. Try putting a "1" in the apportionment section for Gross Receipts - Texas and Gross Receipts Everywhere. That seemed to do the trick for us. Not sure why we have to do that but those returns are now only generating the PIR.
This is one of those instances where you should be careful when overriding Lacerte because it is doing it correctly. If the entity has zero revenues, it is required to file the EZ or long form. Don't ask me why Texas decided that $0 is not less than $2.47M. It doesn't make any sense to me but it is what the Comptroller is requiring. See the link below.
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