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Question NY State CT-3 Forms

Hi,

About 8 years ago on a whim, I formed a corporation but never did anything with it as I got extremely sick with cellulitus. And also, because I listed a mailbox as the address (that shortly expired afterwards), I never received correspondence from NY State about it.

So NY State finally was able to catch up and get in touch with me and told me I owe them money. Fortunately, the representative was very nice when I explained to her I never did anything at all with the business because I was very sick due to my infection. So she told me to do the following to eliminate any taxes I owe on the defunct business...

File corporation tax returns beginning in 2017 to 2019.

11/2017-10/2018

11/2018-10/2019

11/2019-10/2020 - mark it final

She then instructed me to download the form CT-3 for each specific year and fill it out and send it in, which I am trying to do now, but I'm just a bit confused on how to fill it out when I didn't have any income or loss with the business as I never did anything with it.

The CT-3 forms are eight pages long and none of it seems to apply to me given nothing happened with the business. It just a bunch of questions. So my questions is, do I just enter, "0.00" or "N/A "for all the questions, sign each form, and then send it back to NY State (so they can eliminate my estimated taxes due)? I just don't want to accidentally put an X or 0.00 in the wrong box and cause any further headaches for myself. Again, because I did nothing with the business, can I just put something like "N/A" on just one or all of the questions, sign it, send it in, and be done with it? Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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