100s and State forms

[Nevills]

When will the Lacerte forms for CA be final?  We are holding our return and getting behind.  Clients are asking for K-1's.  I contacted Spidell who contacted the FTB.  The FTB said this was a Lacerte issue.  Is Turbo Tax up and running??  Why is there a delay?  Nothing has changed.

Does anyone know what Lacerte is doing for their "high valued" customers and why CA is still not able to be printed or finalized?

[ARRIAGATAX]

We contacted Lacerte about this issue when electronic filing opened and we were told by the end of the month, which has passed.  i spoke to another agent on Sunday and was told there was an update on the 3rd of February which never came, the last update on Friday the 30th of January seems buggy and we're having issues with our software.  I know another preparer who uses Ultra Tax and they informed me that they have been able to print and file their CA 540's as of the 26th.  awful service from lacerte this year.

[danlassentax]

Yes this is becoming a problem.  We are getting stacked up with early returns.  Clients can not review their CA returns before filing, not a good situation. Turbo Tax has the forms available for efile and print for their clients but not Lacerte.  Not good... Attached is a pic of the Turbo Tax Status for CA forms..  I know they have been available since at least yesterday when I checked.  Calls to support have not yielded any answers for myself.

[ARRIAGATAX]

completely ridiculous that we are experiencing this, it is putting us at a competitive disadvantage with turbo tax, which is also an intuit product, i have never thought about switching to another software but i'll be doing a demo with ultra tax this year and see about switching software.  sorry to all fellow lacerte users, we pay far too much for this product to receive this sort of customer care and support.

[IRonMaN]

It's kinda bizarre that Turddotaxx and ProSeries has them ready but Lacerte doesn't.  Maybe the CA programmers got moved over to doing phone support because support has been swamped with calls about the CA forms not being ready. 😲

[BobKamman]

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