Thanks, Linda!
William. I, and others discovered that the form isn't even needed. Hope you can pass along our experiences and recommendations to the software designers. Given what you've stated, and our combined success at filing without the form, that message should NOT be part of the cover sheet for anyone's NY return!
As we described, the message there is also baffling, doesn't even mention that form, and it makes no sense anyway as it is a federal form, and this is a state return!
Hope you understand our frustration and the confusion that message induces!
Please ask them to remove it. If for some reason (??!!), they feel it must remain, then see earlier in thread for specifics about language changes.
But, really, it shouldn't even be there, so I hope you can talk to those in charge and get them to delete that obscure, misleading, and disconcerting message.
Thanks, in advance, for your efforts on our behalf!
