NYS Dept of Finance -  will support “linked” and “unlinked” state returns. A State submission could be linked to the IRS submission by including t

e Submission ID of the federal return in the State manifest. If the State submission is linked to an IRS submission (additionally known as a Fed/State return), the IRS will test to see if there may be an accepted IRS submission beneath that Submission ID. If there is not an accepted federal return, the IRS will deny the State submission and a deny acknowledgement will be sent. If there’s an accepted federal return below that Submission ID, then MeF will validate sure elements on the State submission and supply the submission to the collaborating state. If the State return is not linked to a previously accepted federal return (also known as State Stand-Alone Return), then MeF will validate sure components of the submission and if IRS doesn’t deny the state return, it’s going to present the State submission to the participating state whatever the federal return.
Each Federal and State returns should be in XML format. The federal returns should conform to the IRS valid schema versions. New York State returns should conform to the Partnership New York State Schema. Underneath such a process, the taxpayer could authorize the preparer of the tax return to give the Division data that is missing from the return, call the Department for information about the processing of the return or the status of
a refund claimed on, or payments made with or reported on, the return and reply to certain.
Division notices that the taxpayer has shared with the preparer about math errors, offsets and return preparation. No such procedure could authorize the Department to ship statutory or other notices, or copies of notices, to the preparer. No such procedure may authorize the disclosure by the Department, or by the person signing the tax return as the preparer, of data regarding substantive issues, together with but not limited to, underreporting points, examination inquiries, and assortment notices. The authorization beneath any such process shall be irrevocable but shall routinely expire no later than the due date (with out regard to extensions) for the filing of the return for the following yr for the same tax, no matter whether or not the taxpayer is subject to the same tax within the following year.