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Welcome to the Unofficial ATX community, not affiliated or controlled by ATX, CCH, or Wolters Kluwer. This is a privately owned site that was started back in 2007 when ATX was bought out and received so many negative comments on their official forum that the company shut down it down in early April of that year and left the users with nowhere to get answers to their tax questions or help with the software. The owner of this site is a former employee of ATX when they were located in Caribou, Maine, and he graciously continues to host this forum for us.

Why would any of us want to retire now when things are just getting fun. But today I received in the mail a letter from the blockheads that they have flexible options and will even hire my staff. (my dog?) They will help reduce my fears and make goals of retirement a reality. I'm telling you, HRB has given me a significant amount of amending work over the years. Perhaps I will ask them to just keep me on as their fixer-upper preparer......

I received this letter and laughed my butt off. God knows that I want to retire from tax preparation within the next several years, but I love my clients too much to turn them over to HRB. 2020 has been enought to make me shut down right now, but I have to stick it out.

I have been having this problem since yesterday. And yes it is up and running now. Also did we change the forum format? I have been going to the one for ATX and suddenly couldn't find it yesterday while I had to register for this one. I am so lost.

So glad you found this helpful. I see you are from/in NY. I may call upon you for assistance should my one NY client return. This a such a great group.

yes - I'm using ATX. You answered my question. Thank you! I will tweak the letter to say we are mailing the RITA.

I've taken it for granted that I've got something worth selling, especially after the spouse of a colleague of my wife's asked me, in hope of luring his son into partnership with him. That fell through but inspired me to contact a local broker of practices and exchange visits with a CPA to whom I felt I could entrust my favorite clients. Ill health in his family and my attorney's over-scheduling delayed things into this January . . . . I haven't given up but only accept that it'll be months before we could resume the courtship. E.g., how could a prospective buyer meet any of my clients yet? Just really quitting would leave most of my clients in the lurch when only a few deserve that. If I spent the time necessary to find a trustworthy successor it seems only fitting that I'm paid for that effort. We're "trusted advisors" in other ways already.

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