RE: I cannot see any form under "File Forms" in payroll. Anyone else have this issue and how do i fix it?
The way this is supposed to work is QuickBooks will automatically show all the forms you may need to use based on your payroll data. Then, from that list you can hide forms you don't want or need, and also show forms you don't appear to need - for example, forms for states for which you have no payroll data.
Some customers have a misconception of this list and as a result they hide the form after they file it, expecting it to come back next quarter or year. But that won't happen. Once hidden, the form stays hidden until you make it active again.
Could that be what you're seeing? Did someone perhaps hide the forms after last filing them?
RE: I know the steps to finally getting the forms to show up but that is not what I am asking.
Do you mean the steps above, and that you can make the forms reappear by picking the "Make a new form active" from the Forms button in your image?
RE: WHY DOES IT KEEP HAPPENING?
In more detail, what is "it" that keeps happening, exactly? For example, are the forms all listed one day and then they all mysteriously disappear the next?
RE: It is a pain to have to close and reopen several times every time I need to file payroll taxes.
Do you mean the closing your company file and reopening it suddenly makes the expected list of forms appear? Something else? Specifics may help.
