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When you have support related questions, do you call Sigma or Drake? Does your efiling activity and download updates go through a Sigma or a Drake website?

@Abby Normal Is half year appropriate? My understanding was you get the full year (20% of total costs) each year. Am I wrong? Thanks for the appropriate classification. Tom Longview, TX

Both. The property was in Kentucky, so Kentucky wants their tax, probably on a NR Kentucky return. Wisconsin will tax his worldwide income while a resident, so it'll be on a PY Wisconsin return, taking a credit for taxes paid to Kentucky on that same gain from the sale. But, I don't prepare returns for either state, so can't tell you if Kentucky has a NRPY return as one return. Read the instructions on their website. Someone will jump in here who knows about a Kentucky NRPY return.

I buy via Sigma Tax, $999 for the last 2 years and the same next year.

I have a client who moved from Kentucky to Wisconsin in mid-April of 2023. He sold his farm and sawmill business and all related equipment located in Kentucky in May of 2023? Which state do I report the gains from the sale of the farm and business property to?

I'm at a loss why someone would want to track this manually rather than on a spreadsheet, but some options: In Amazon search for trading log book for numerous options. If you use comb binding for tax returns, make your own. Google custom book binding for any number of companies that offer that service.

I have purchased a few stock logs booklets and they have extra columns that I don't use. I want something simple like: Date purchased - Date sold - stock name - amount of stock - price purchased - total cost - price sold - amount collected - Profit/loss and notes. Do you know of any company that can make me those booklets?

Use Z-Amortization and 5-Amort-174-Rsch and exp and you'll get 5 year SL HY.

I am having withdrawal ever since the 15th. I would like to see these extensions disappear. I am so totally disappointed in the IRS for various reasons; many of you can relate. I am disappointed in ATX for pouncing on us before tax season was even (over?). I have since been bombarded with emails and calls and snail mail from them. They choose to attack when our resistance is at its lowest. I only want to sleep. I am fine with whatever Eric does for us. It can surely only make our lives better and easier. Thanks again to Eric and all of you for what you do for me.

Asking now before I start this return - before the board goes dark and I go into withdrawal symptoms..... Have any of you done the amortization of R&D costs on an 1120 return yet? I have one in my extended pile that I have been holding waiting for the Senate to act on the bill that is stalled. I have not even started the return yet, but I am curious if there are any issues with entering in ATX. I know it is a 5 year asset (but which one). I think it should be SL, but how do I keep ATX from taking mid-year? I am getting to this return in a couple of weeks and would appreciate any advice on how to enter in ATX Fixed Assets. Thanks - this is my first return with R&D costs. Tom Longview, TX

Any time is ok with me for the conversion business-wise, but I may have withdrawal during the downtime. As always, thank you for taking care of us so well, Eric.

Yes, Exactly!

Thank you and good luck with the move!

Hello all, We've had some (very few, but more than zero) issues where database tables have crashed during times of heavy load on the server. These load spikes are usually related to other sites that I'm responsible for that happen to share resources with the ATX Community. These haven't been significant issues, and in fact have been very easy to resolve when they arise, but it does cause brief downtime on the Forum. So, in the interest of constant improvement, I would like to move the ATX Community to its own server (VPS) with its own dedicated resources. There are other server configuration changes/challenges that I'll tackle at the same time. Because this is the only forum I maintain, I am less experienced with performance tuning for this software than, say, more standard website content management systems. All that to say, I am expecting it to be a slightly bumpy transition but with improved speed and stability in the long term. There might be as much as one or two days of downtime followed by intermittent hiccups until everything is smoothed out. I'm aiming for mid-May to get this work done, but there is no hurry on my end. If there are business reasons to put it off longer, please speak up! Thanks!

I have received mine: 1. Drake has raised the price of their standard multiuser software by about 20%. 2. Drake as added two new selections: Single User Unlimited and Single User 1040 (No business returns) 3. I will continue to use Drake Pay Per Return (ten Individual returns included) as I have the past 2 tax seasons although they have raised the price for additional personal returns from $35 to $40 and additional business returns from $ 50 to $60, which will cost about me $150 more for next tax season but it's still about $600 leas than the Single User Unlmited price.

Likely nothing was broken. The VPN could be routing you through a different IP range, which the site is not yet tracking. Years ago, I found a list of all the IP ranges controlled by a competitor, which happened to also be routinely scraping my site. Easy enough to block. Same for bot scrapers. I don't really care about VPN use, as I do have customers outside the US (travel) who need access, but I have seen many lists of VPN IP ranges (so they could be easily blocked). I also, many years ago, blocked some of the way back type sites, and as best I can, I block the addresses who want to scrape me to use/sell for their "AI" purposes. Even so, I still can find lifted content in AI sites, and in other places.

I just held for an hour and 7 minutes. After being given an ID number (in a very flat, disaffected tone), I was told I was being transferred to the 'correct department' (never had that one before). Immediately back into the same queue (I'm certain) and back on hold, only to eventually be cut off. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating.

Oddly, no problem logging in with the VPN today. Maybe they fixed it. And a few times this year I did have to log in again after updating. Only a few.

Lee is right! Hope you got some sleep.

Well, it just happened to me, I just updated and had to sign back in

Oh right, he meant after the program updates. I had that happen once mid-season but hasn't happened since then. I'm more tired than I realized.

Given the context, I assume Jim means signing back into Drake? Which hasn't happened to me.

What program are you having to sign into again?

I had that happen once. I just figured I had inadvertently clicked something. Also, I have had to re-sign in after updating about 10% of the time this year!

Been there, done that. Also known as IRS purgatory. IRS knows they have it but they don't know anything else. Tom Longview, TX