Error: California e-file extension payment required
You'll get this diagnostic if you try to submit a California e-file extension without a payment amount. California extensions are automatic when no payment is due.
Error message
E-file Extension Payment: The California e-file extension cannot be submitted unless there is a payment due. If no payment is due, an extension is not filed, it is automatic. If submitting payment, all required information must be entered (account type, routing number, account number, date to be debited, amount to be debited, authorization to debit, and daytime phone number). Navigation: Organizer/States/Common State/General Information/ /Bank Information/Extension - Debit tab.
Solution
If no payment is due, don't file an extension. It's automatic and doesn't require submission. If you're submitting a payment, enter all the required bank information:
- Go to .
- Make sure that all required Columns (B, D, E, F, H, and I) in theExtension - Debit tabare filled out.
- Go to .
- If there's an error for missing payment details, clear it with a spacebar override.
- Go to .
- Enter a phone number in Column H.
- Do a full recompute, then recreate the e-file.