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Any today we wake up to a new version of Edge installed on our Windows 10 machines, I never said I wanted it.

It was the final straw for me. I am moving all my web activity to Chrome. Resetting all my favorites is almost complete. Just having a problem with this site. I should have done this when I moved to Win10. I am done with Microsoft browsers forever if I can help it. Tom Modesto, CA

AFAIK mid July or thereabouts

Snitched from another group: Remember in January when we thought this was going to be a crazy tax year because they made more changes to Form 1040 and W4? If we only knew.......

I am so frustrated with technology right now. I had to get a new phone in the last week. Just getting my email set up and my 5 apps that I use was a total pain. Then I had a problem with my email and I had to uninstall and re-install my email on both my main computer and my laptop, and they say it was because when I hooked up my phone to my email I did something to the settings that screwed up my account. Then I go to my internet browser and I don't see anything the same. So I start putting all my favorites on Chrome since MS does not even give you a warning that they are F'ing everything up. Then I get to work today, and our VPN is down, as well as my office 365 subscription saying it was deactivated and needs to be reactivated. I have 87 passwords that I need to remember, 14 codes that need to be sent to me to verify who I am so I can get on a website, and over 200 security questions that I need to remember the answers to. I am so sick and tired of these technology companies that I am ready to chuck it all, move to Alaska, and get completely off the grid. Let the government try to find me up there. Tom Modesto, CA

No one recommends using IE, due to security concerns, but a lot of older government websites were designed for IE. I believe you need to use it for FBAR filings? And you have to use Adobe for FBAR, so I set up IE to open pdf in the browser (not my normal preference) and use it for FBAR filings.

orioncarrier, I directed you there because your original post, in paragraph two, stated that you were accustomed to hand entering a reduction amount and referenced the numerator and denominator which would adjust the final figures. I've never had to do anything like that but was assuming that you knew what the outcome should be but not quite how to get there. If those adjusting fields cannot provide what you believe is correct, I honestly have no clue how else to get there. Perhaps try some figures and see what happens. You are correct that the average support person doesn't understand much at all. Sometimes, alas, even the the higher levels and programmers don't either so the burden is on us to know what the outcome should be and not rely 100% on the software - much as we would like to. Perhaps the most expensive software will jump through all the hoops for us but I doubt it. I think annually or so, some organizations presents a set of data for various tax firms and software to determine the correct result and rarely do they all agree. Do your best, sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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.

I was talking about signing of the paid tax preparer. If the return is efiled it must have a PTIN on the return for paid preparer.

All interesting discussion here. I wonder if OP will respond with more facts or any additional information. We are quite good at offering possible solutions to a sparsely described situation. I will be very interested in the whole story and correct tax treatment, if any. Always ready to learn more!

That is why I said "potentially". You are correct about the lack of complete details. The OP also said mother used to be in assisted living. That would imply to me that the daughter brought her mother into her home, but that is just a guess. Also guessing that the daughter probably made about 50K per year at her job that she quit, which is why the other siblings are pitching in to help her out. Also guessing that all the siblings were paying for the assisted living and find it much cheaper to pitch in with their sister to take care of the mother. Also guessing that all of this came about because the family is very concerned that mother will catch Covid in the assisted living facility. I could write a whole book about my guesses on what is going on....I was just giving another point of view that might fit the true fact pattern...a fact pattern that we don't really know. Tom Modesto, CA