Pennsylvania LLC Tax Return Help

[Michael D.]

I've gotten myself into trouble and would love to get some advice.

The setup:

5 years ago in 2011 I created an LLC in Pennsylvania to purchase my first rental property in Pittsburgh. Since then I've added on 3 more properties, bringing the total to 4. The second of these is a 9-unit, the others are all single family.

This LLC is a SINGLE-MEMBER LLC, with me personally as the only member.

As this is a pass-through for federal purposes and because I never had any net income in the LLC anyway, I never filed any state LLC returns.

Now I just sold the 9-unit, and the title company is holding back $21k in escrow because of a tax lien letter. They said they could send the state $14k, or they could hold back 1.5x that much in escrow. I took that option as they said it's easier to get the money back from them than from the state.

I called the number on the form and spoke to a nice guy at the revenue department who told me to just file the CRT-101 form (I think he told me that), and they'd issue a new clean tax cert so that the title company could release my money.

Well I just went to download the form and they're very complex and non-intuitive. There is also an instruction booklet which indicates that even for a single member LLC there are a bunch more forms that I need to file along with it, like L, M1, M2, X, etc.

And I have to do this for the last 5 years.

So basically I'm looking for any advice someone can give me. I'm also willing to pay a reasonable amount of money for a professional to help me out with this, if anybody knows someone. I don't want to call around because I don't want to get raked over the coals and I also want to learn how it's done.

And where can I get this "Revenue Number" that's supposed to be like a 10-digit EIN or something?

Thanks for any help!