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Dear Abby (and friends), I appreciate your comment and would indeed write more (I do enjoy it very much), but it seems to me that a steady diet of crackerbarrel humor and southern cornbread tends to become a tad overdone and stale PDQ (as you know, some tax pros want non-tax posts eliminated entirely). I'll continue to contribute occasionally though. We certainly could USE some humor nowadays, couldn't we? Saw that divorces are up sharply among newlyweds (must not have suffered from as many slings and arrows of past events as this old bunch - I'm trudging through a fifty-something anniversary). Some good news: supposed to have a vaccine in a few months which is cheering. Wonder of wonders - saw Lysol spray for sale on Amazon (if you want to pay $64.99 for three cans); the stuff's made in India. While my Prozac-popping pal looked a little bleary-eyed the other day, at least she's still with us, so that's encouraging. Also recently saw two movies on Netflix that weren't completly crazy. Hooray! Best regards, BB

Outside of us dinosaurs, I wonder who still knows (or gets taught) that if the out-of-balance amount is divisible by 9 that somewhere two numbers are transposed in the different columns?

Why not kill (no pun intended) two birds with one stone Is this our friend Rita’s business?

The tax and withholding tables are in Pub 15-T https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15t

Good grief, Illigitimas, you've got Rita figgured out!!

I agree Yardley, but I still remember the 2012 year and it is not a fond memory.

Probably just us dinosaurs.

Before spreadsheet software, we would 'foot and cross-foot' to ensure our totals were correct. Now, we add a cross-foot formula to double check our totals. My choice is to have to formula display zero if it's in balance or the amount by which it is out of balance.

Happy to see ATX had a decent showing. I've been using the program for many years, back to the days of Parsons Technology, and it has treated me well. That's not to say there isn't the occasional hiccup, but overall I'm very pleased with the product.