Schedule G-1 is not completed for Form 5471 # {PrefixNum} . This schedule is required if foreign corporation with category 1c, 3, 4, 5a, or 5c was a participant in any cost sharing arrangement during the tax year.
What about when there is no cost sharing agreement during the tax year. I haven't marked any of these boxes and Lacerte is still giving me this diagnostic. What do you do?
OK, in the second field of input screen 48.170, "Provide brief description of the CSA," I typed "There is no foreign or domestic sales of intangibles." This appears on Schedule G-1, Line 1 and eliminates the diagnostic. It seems you could type any appropriate statement here and get the same result. Not sure if this critical diagnostic prevents e-filing, but more comfortable with it gone.