Louisiana Pass Through Entity Tax

[JMad]

I am trying to complete a LA Partnership tax return for an entity electing to pay the pass through entity tax. Proseries has this incredible paragraph on the LA information page that says "Entity is filing a pass through entity (PTE) tax election for this tax year. Note: An entity filing as a pass through entity (PTE) is required to file both Form IT-565 and Form CIFT-620.  If this box is marked "Yes" indicating this entity is filing as a PTE, Form IT-565 will be calculated.  To prepare Form CIFT-620 and associated PTE forms, Go to State and select the Louisiana Corporation/S Corporation product in the S Corporation product.  

HOW CAN YOU GIVE THIS ADVICE THAT IS NOT EVEN POSSIBLE???!!!  Last year you had the capability to access both the IT565 and the CIFT 620 from the Partnership state returns.  Explain exactly how i am supposed to go to the corporate home base and prepare a LA corp return?  You cannot exactly transfer a partnership return to the corporate section AND EVEN IF YOU COULD how i am supposed to efile two different returns with the same FEIN.  Now I need to explain to my client why i have to somehow complete a manual LA corporate return that will most likely take alot of time and paper file because my very expensive software has no work around.  THIS NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED.

[JMad]

If anyone can PLEASE help with any idea they might be able to provide I would be very grateful.  I just spent 1 1/2 hours with technical support with learning nothing more than I knew prior to picking up the phone.  It appears I will need to prepare a return manually????

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the idea to add Form CIFT-620 to Louisiana Partnership Module. We are changing the status to "Open for voting". 

To e-file CIFT-620, you'll need to create the client file twice, once in 1065 and once in 1120S. View this article on Generating Louisiana composite and PTE return in ProSeries

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[JMad]

This is what I have done; however, this is a ridiculous workaround on behalf of Proseries.  What should have taken me maybe a half hour to complete a return took 4 hours as you have to create the file and then reinput any information that is necessary to get this LA return to complete. This return I am working on is a large entity.  Not to mention that the CIFT-620 is required to be electronically filed but I will hope LA will allow an exemption--there is no way this corp file will pass final review---and even if it did Proseries will not allow a duplicate filing of the same FEIN.