If an LLC is not ETBUS (Engaged in a Trade or Business Inside the United States) is it still possible for it to have ECTI and be required to file 8804/8805 for its foreign partners?
The reason I ask is that I got a communication from a CPA once hinting that I had to file 8804/8805s for ANY LLC with foreign partners (even with zero income). The LLC he was filing the return for was not ETBUS.
Later I came across contrary info, indicating I only need to file 8804s if there is ECTI.
Either there is info to back up the CPA's statement (which I can't find), or he was speaking sloppily and not accurately (and forgetting that the LLC was not ETBUS).