RobertB4444
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Self employed

If you have zero dollars in income and zero dollars in expenses you have no filing requirement.  Not for the federal return or the state.  That is why you're being required to mail it - it's a zero dollar tax return and the system won't process those.

 

If you have a loss that you're trying to carry forward or back then you do have a filing requirement in order to report that.  But that would be the only reason.

 

If you decide to file the state return anyway then you should attach a complete copy of the federal return to it and mail the whole thing in that way.  

 

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