JoeRod - I think it is two different things. Lacerte (or any tax software) has to get the interaction of their software approved by the powers that be at the Texas Comptroller's office. Whereas the Comptrollers own website is not an upload but rather a direct input. The bottleneck is likely with the Comptroller to a large extent but seems like the entire process could be made to work by January. It's not like the Franchise Return has changed dramatically in 10 years. Tweeks here and there but basically a pretty dang simple computation. A couple times I contacted Texas there reply was "Well, do you realize its not due until May 15th?" To which i replied, "Of course i do, but it's nice to be be able to file the state return at the same time as the federal ... and we can't".