NYC-202 (Unincorporated Business Tax) Forms Not Appearing

[JBFell]

I spent hours last week and reached out to several colleagues before calling Lacerte.

1040 filer has two Sch C businesses (and SMLLC and a sole proprietorship that is a DBA).  We check the box in Screen 16 New York Miscellaneous for New York City unincorporated business.  We check the boxes in Screen 1 to e-file New York City UBT (Taxpayer) and New York City UBT (Spouse).  Both businesses are 100% in NYC and have a filing requirement based on gross receipts.  All of the rollover data from last year was fine.

However, the "State" section in the Forms screen only had US, NY and NY -- IT-204-LL.  It did not have NY -- NYC-UBT or NY -- UBT Spouse.  I was able to print a NYC-UBT TP from the print dialog box (Print, Tax Return, Partial Return), leaving Show all forms checked), but it was blank.  Doing so generated an e-file Status of "Passed Validation" in the F4 dialog.

While I was on the line with Chris in Lacerte support, my colleague Howard spoke to our colleague David Winitsky who remembered the problem and workaround "solution." 

We had to go to Screen 16, New York Miscellaneous Information section, and "uncheck," then "check" the New York City unincorporated business checkbox for each Sch C.

Apparently, this is a bug that crops up intermittently in Lacerte.  I hope your development and QA teams can isolate and fix this defect.  It cost me about three hours, plus another half hour of Howard's time and five minutes of David's time.