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Terry I agree, and he reminds me of a customer I had one time. update 4.0.0.17 is ready and working great I will give you an update on States a little later today. Doug

In the IRS’s legal brief in support of its motion, the agency admitted it had already received “over $100 million” in user fees from tax preparers, while only spending about $50 million to implement the regulations. But the IRS objected to spending the much smaller sum of $238,000 simply to notify tax preparers of the judge’s ruling in this case. Why doesn't the IRS just make it optional to take the testing and market it where taxpayers only want to get their taxes done by some one who has taken this exam. It would be cheaper for the American tax payers and it would give the advantage to the tax preparers who are willing to participate voluntarily. By doing this it would come with rules and laws just like a drivers license, and a point system to where you could get suspended if you get to many points. To pass this test it should be made rather easy and the program should be more about the continuing education year after year, we could call it Assistant Enrolled Agent (AEA). Kind of sounds like Assistant District Attorney, but it works. If you want to become a full EA then you would take testing and Continuing education clases to achieve that over time but on the way have it ranked AEA 1, AEA 2 etc. This way the tax payer would know who is really trying to stay on top of things to get the tax payer the best deserved refund and if the tax payer did not choose to check the tax preparers credentials then that would be on the tax payer. This make no sense to anyone else but it did kind of work for the Military... Doug Hughes

Yes stay with .15 until I put out .17 in a couple hours. Doug

We changed the update back to .15 doing some checks but if it is not already back to .16 it will be in a minute. I added a auto recalculate when the return is opened instead of always having to pus the little green button. On old returns you may have to still hit the little green button. I am on the W2 issue but it will be after Midnight when we update it in a release. Doug

Boss, You can over ride but if you enter in box 12 it will change box 3 & 5 / 4 & 6. Check it out and if you have further questions please ask. Doug

Right Click and Override, I just did and that works for this.

No there is an issue with the interview mode on dependents last name that is different from the taxpayers last name but we are all over it. Doug

You can get free copies if your using it for personal use. But be careful you may be more ethical than someone else and if they get in toruble and they say you help them do it on a screen share. But it is a great way to do support and you would be supprised how many times we have asked someone have you checked that box or did you delete that and they say yes and then you find out the opposite once you get on a screen share. Doug

Linda give me some more details on what you are needing to do and where the program is limiting you.

I am getting this fixed at first I was not following you but I get it now.

Nelie, I just did a HOH return with a dependent with a different last name and mine worked fine. The name change has to be on the Client information sheet and you have to put your cursor at the end of the last name and backspace to delete it (This keeps us from making accidential deletes) and then re-enter the correct last name. Try this and let me know if you need further help on this. This was on a brand new return not a proforma'd return, is that a new return you are working on too? Doug

Crank it is all about preference, my grandfather used to say son there is more than one way to skin a cat. However I really never understood where that came from since I never saw anyone skin a cat or even want to. Doug

Taxed maybe it is you that is backwards Member Members 93 posts Posted Today, 01:25 PM Crank, I noticed that one of the programs I used in the last couple of years (there's been so many since since ATX messed everyone up) did the same thing, and, actually, I found I liked doing the 8829 first, and having the balance go to the A. For me, it was one less entry to re-type. The order I use now is - client info, W-2's, C (including 8829), E, B, A, and then whatever else might be needed. Hey, sometimes a little change can spice things up! )

If you were to do the schedule A first the tax pro would have to put the mortgage interest and property tax to the side and not enter it. The information from the 8829 flows to the schedule A, If the tax pro were to enter it twice there is no way of knowing that the accounts were the same.