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[#1]

The following diagnostic is generating:

If your combined group's total revenue for the year is less than $2,470,000, you do not need to file a Tax Affiliate Schedule (Form 05-166) or Common Owner Information Report (Form 05-177) alone. If you are filing electronically, make sure to exclude these forms before filing any Information report. If you do need to file those forms, you can include them with the return by overriding the franchise tax calculation method and file it as a conventional paper return. Alternately, use the override provided in the Texas Franchise Tax, Print Option Overrides section to suppress the Tax Affiliate Schedule (Form 05-166).

[SherriC62]

We're having the same problem.  The company has no affiliates.  It never has.   We are unable to file their report because of this error message.

[OldCPA]

I used the disable efile error check and was able to get the return filed.  I don't like using that feature but since there doesn't seem to much of an effort on Lacerte's part to get this resolved and I knew they didn't have any affiliates or any tax liability I decided to use that option rather than wait until close to the due date in May and hope they fix it.

[dmwBH]

I talked to Lacerte yesterday and they said the diagnostic happens when you have an amount in the Employee Benefits field in screen 10.  It makes no sense but they are working on fixing it.  I spot checked our clients with the diagnostic and they all had amounts for Employee Benefits.  They didn't say how long before it's fixed but did mention the disable option to bypass the issue.