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Level 2
March 20, 2024

60175

  • March 20, 2024
  • 13 replies
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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).

 

Solution:

This diagnostic generates when an affiliate has been entered in screen 49.433 and the total Texas combined revenue is below $2.47M.

(Chose One):

If you do need to file form 05-166:

  1. Go into screen 49.431, Texas Franchise Tax.
  2. Scroll to the section Deductions and Tax Adjustments.
  3. Make an entry in the field "Calculation method [O]: 1=COGS, 2=compensation, 3=70%, 4=EZ, 5=less 1 million, 6=EZ (no tax due)" to force a Texas main form to generate. This return may needs be filed on paper.

If you don't need to file form 05-166:

  1. Go into screen 49.431, Texas Franchise Tax.
  2. Scroll to the section Print Option Overrides.
  3. Check the box "Suppress Affiliate Schedule(s) 05-166 (when below No Tax Due threshold)".

13 replies

Level 3
March 20, 2024

We are getting that diagnostic on a few returns too.  It wasn't there yesterday and none of those returns are combined groups, never have been.  Very weird.

Level 4
March 21, 2024

How do you remove form 05-166, without creating a diagnostic error. 

Level 3
March 21, 2024

Delete the affiliates from the combined reporting screen, screen 49.433.

Level 4
March 21, 2024

then how do you file the affiliates? 

JSH1971Author
Level 2
March 21, 2024

Ours is not a combined group and never has been so there are no affiliates.  It's very strange.

Level 4
March 21, 2024

okay, thank you.

 

Guess i have to call lacerte.  

Level 3
March 22, 2024

Same for us, appears to be just S Corps for us.  I submitted a service ticket to lacerte and attached a client file.

Level 2
March 22, 2024

Spent an hour on the phone with Lacerte yesterday, it's clearly on their side.  Today the diagnostic wording has changed but still a Critical e-file diagnostic that is not applicable to the return(s).

Level 3
March 22, 2024

Same for us.  Sounds like a Lacerte programming error.  Texas franchise is just really messing up this year.

Level 5
March 22, 2024

I had 3 TX S corps, 2 went through fine but the 3rd one had this diagnostic.  Nothing that I can see is different between the 3.  This is so frustrating.

The one that failed is a sole shareholder, no combined group, same as the other 2.

dmwBH or Jkg1, did they give any indication of when they might fix this?