Drake Accounting - RI - Preparing and Filing the TX-17 Report

Article #: 16322

Last Updated: December 05, 2024

 

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For filing to the Rhode Island Division of Taxation - Employer Tax Section, DAS can produce:

  • A PDF of Form TX-17, Quarterly Tax And Wage Report, for record-keeping purposes only.

  • A .txt file for upload of the data reported on RI TX-17, Quarterly Tax And Wage Report.

Preparing the RI TX-17 Report

  1. Select the Employees or On the Fly menu, then select State Tax & Wage Forms.

  2. Make sure RI is selected, then select TX-17 from the Forms droplist.

  3. Select the applicable quarter.

  4. Review the form and make any necessary entries or edits.

  5. Make sure the e-file checkbox is marked then select Save/Print.

Note  Save/Print creates the .txt file for upload to the RI Division of Taxation, as well as a watermarked PDF copy of the TX-17 Report for record-keeping purposes only.

Uploading the RI TX-17 Report

  1. Log in to the RI Employer Wage Tax Filing portal.

  2. Follow the menu options to upload the file.

Note  The upload file can be found by browsing to the drive where DAS is installed >DrakeAccounting20YY > DAS20YYData > Clients > client code > EFile > RI > RITX17 (DrakeAccounting20YY > Clients > client code > EFile > RI > RITX17 in DAS20 and prior) and selecting the file named RITX17_YYYY-MM-DD_HR_MIN_SEC.txt (where YYYY-MM-DD_HR_MIN_SEC is the date and time of the file creation).