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I had my sister in law's birthday off by one day and by one year too! For almost 50 years I thought she and my brother were born the same year but is actually a year younger. Their return has never rejected since e-filing began.

"Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause said in a call Wednesday that the agency will give these employees the option to return to their jobs by April 14 — the day before the tax filing season deadline — according to IRS employees familiar with the call. The IRS also sent an email Wednesday afternoon, notifying the approximately 7,000 probationary employees it recently fired. “You are receiving this email as one of approximately 7,000 probationary employees who were separated from service and have been reinstated in compliance with recent court orders,” the email states. “At this time, while you remain on administrative leave, you will soon receive instructions for how to return on full-time duty by April 14." It will be interesting to see how many actually return to work? I am somewhat encouraged that they are following the court orders.

Not always, I was reviewing past three returns for new clients. Prior preparer had been using 12/31/xx for husband and 12/31/yy for wife which is carried to front page of the Oregon returns. Years of birth were correct but not dates, and they were accepted for e-file by fed and state. Also had another case where dates and year of birth were off for both spouses, but had been accepted in the past by fed and state.

I had one rejected already this year because the birthdate was wrong. We had entered a 3 instead of a 5 so the efile grabs that right away.

It only matches when needed or maybe it doesn't match it at all against your efile. I believe the IRS has the birthdate from SS administration and the software has a flag when client turns 13, 17, 50, 55, 55.5, 62... and 70 or 72. The reason I say that it is because a client had a 12 years old son and for some reason believe the child was born a year later. So when I entered his date of birth was one year off. When the client turn 16, I requested full child tax credit (I forget what was at that time), the IRS say... no credit because child was 17 years during tax year. All years prior the IRS had not mention that the date was wrong. I have never had an efile rejected because someone's date has been entered wrong, have you?

I will check the forms again, but I did not see one. I have some CA returns too, so I have seen that before.

I like my Canon ImageClass D1620, but it may not be available anymore. Copy feeder, scan, 500 page paper drawer. I don't do color printing, so I like a b/w only printer. It was about $300 when I got it 3-4 years ago. I get aftermarket toner cartridges on Amazon fairly cheap. Tom Longview, TX

Not sure about GA, but for CA you have a separate entry worksheet you need to add to the return. It populates the federal and you enter the state amounts. Look in the forms and see if there is a GA state K-1 entry form. Tom Longview, TX

The IRS does match birthdates, if the return is e-filed.

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My first printer when I was on my own in 1998, was a Brothers HL1040. When i saw the model number, I knew that was the one. I am now up to an HL6200. I've had this one about 5 years. I always buy Brother. and use LD toner

When you enter the items on the 4562 input , the program creates the depreciation report. You can see the report when you view the return.

I have brother MFC-L2750DW and am well pleased for over 6 years. As others have commented replacement toner and drum units are easily and cheaply available thru LD products and are very reliable.

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Hello, anyone here familiar or is more knowledgeable than I about the Drake software?. I could really use some help. It's my second year as a tax prepper and thus far, the Drake system has been pretty simple to navigate. Anyhow, I've come to a complete stop with the Depreciation and Amortization Report. This is the report where it itemizes or creates a list of the properties and any items that are depreciable that comes with the property or purchased for the property. So my questions is, where can I find this report. I know we in put the information on form 4562 but how do I create a list that will include the property, land and other depreciable? Hope that makes sense....Thank you in advance

On my list for this week, but thanks for the reminder!

Ditto on Brother, I have the MFC-L5850DW and it's been a good workhorse. The high-yield toner cartridges are good.

direct deposit has been allowed on an electronically filed 1040-X for a couple of years (IRS notice February 2023--no mention of direct debit). I would be concerned that direct debit might not happen by the chosen date. My understanding is that e-filed amended returns do not jump the queue, they just get there quicker.

What I like about Brother is that you can buy refilled cartridges on Amazon for a very cheap amount. Some of the makers have utilized tech to try and prevent that. It also will hit 100k pages by the end of next week. I'm thinking about moving my color printer to the side and using a mono / black only printer for general usage when I don't need color. I'd like to limp this color print along until retirement.

We have two 6200dw's and both are over 100,000 on page counts. Our original 1800dw (very old model) has over 300,000 pages on it. Still works great !! But LD Products is a great place to buy toner and drums. So much cheaper than OEM stuff. We used Ricoh units before Brother and toner was not cheap for those. And aftermarket toner was hard to find.

I received the Approval on the e-filing this morning with these results. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU for your help! The $179 from both of your calculations is what helped lead me to it. SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL!

Is there a place on schedule E input or fixed asset input to tell ATX this is in NY (the non-res state) not in AZ (the res state) so it calculates the correct state info? I feel like I'm asking a lot of questions lately. Time for another donation.

Thank you for sending all of that. I woke up to an Acceptance after submitting what happened to be the same thing you show here. LOL. The result ended up being less than prior numbers. As we can see, they still owe some of the excess back, which sucks since she had the plan for the WHOLE year without him being on it or considering his income until December wedding. I am a licensed insurance agent and write these policies too here in OK. It's surprising to me how many still don't explain this to the clients or make sure they understand the risk of using it without having proper numbers. In this case, though, she used proper numbers, but wasn't explained how she can still pay back some of the APTC. Regardless, having help on this site and getting the acceptance this morning has boosted my mood knowing this isn't hanging around my head anymore! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Depending on the laws of your state, to the extent that the assets of the deceased spouse exceeded her liabilities the surviving spouse was obligated to pay the credit card bill.

I love my Brother color laser HL-L3280CDW. It has a great envelope bypass and it was very reasonably priced, but it's monthly duty cycle is only 3,000, so it might not be good enough for printing a lot of pages.