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I’m with the ‘it kinda sucks’ folks. They make sure people can’t get through and then sell times to call in. Just doesn’t sit well with me.

I don't know about ATX, but the IRS announced Saturday 20 November 11:59 pm as the Individual e-file shutdown: Timeframes for Your Planning In this announcement, the IRS requires CCH, as a transmitter, to stop sending submissions at 10:00 PM EST. Therefore, you must release your returns so they are in Transmitted status no later than 9:59 PM EST on Saturday, November 20, 2021. However, to ensure all federal, state, and city returns are in transmitted status by the deadline, you should release returns as early in the day as possible. We recommend you release your returns no later than 1:00 PM EST. This is particularly important for the scenario in which states and cities are linked to the federal return. We hold the state/city in status Ready to transmit - Validation Complete until the federal return is accepted. The acceptance of the federal return could occur several hours after you release the federal return.

I don't think there is an "adjustment." Withholding taxes are treated differently on the 2210 than estimated tax payments. Estimated payments are counted in the quarter they are paid; withholding is treated as though it is paid evenly through out the year regardless of when the income was received or the tax was withheld. I use my Christmas "bonus" this way so that the withholding on my December check will cover the extra payment for any other income during the year - profits, dividends,stock sales, etc. Sounds like what you do, Margaret. I think Christian is just saying that he can adjust what he has his client pay in estimated taxes by having a larger amount paid in from the RMD in December.

@Patrick Michael I searched your posts and found that you use Drake which does offer practice returns and the solutions. I logged in to its site and scrolled to the last item in the menu at left that is "Training". This has a clickable link to all the practice returns available for 2020 tax year including #12 that is for a 2-person domestic partnership. These come up as pdfs that you may download or print, and the solutions contain the correctly completed returns.

Then take the partnership returns you've done in the past or had as examples, problems, or tests in your classes or The Tax Book samples or..., and prepare them in your new software. If you don't have the "answers," then prepare them on paper first and then prepare them in your software to see what you might have missed in your software and to learn how your software flows for partnership returns. Ask your software company for sample partnership returns to practice on. Ask on a message board for partnership returns for tips & tricks to use your software efficiently. Ask a local firm that uses your software to mentor you for a month (perhaps for a fee) so you can re-prepare some of their partnership returns and compare results, learn from other users where to enter, what boxes to check, etc.

Other Accountants who use the same Payroll Software as me are reporting that their clients are receiving email requests appearing to be from their employees requesting changes to their direct deposit information. In several instances, their clients went ahead with the changes. Of course their employees received nothing.

As long as even the tiniest percentage of folks give out their banking info, it is profitable for the nefarious types. No different than "I have left over asphalt from a neighbor's job" or "this is the most powerful vacuum on earth" (my fav, since an outlet only provides 15 or 20 amps, and IIRC, most UL approved vacuums are limited to 12 amps or something similar). I have a faint memory of someone trying to make email sending have some fraction of a cent cost - to try to make the large spammers find spamming unprofitable. We have about four no soliciting signs at various conspicuous places in our yard, and a locked porch gate. We still get folks who ignore the signs, and randomly a few who try to reach over the porch with a stick or other object to knock on the door. Funny to watch on security camera! On the other hand, my bank called me a couple of times last week. Even left a message. I called them back, and they were not sure what the calls were for in a timely fashion. The problem was actually real, they changed their electronic systems, front and back end, and my auto payments needed to be reset. I figured it out by not getting the usual notice of a payment being triggered. While I did complain to the bank, the responsibility is always mine to pay my own bills. The bank offered to clean up any issues with late auto bill payments, should they occur. In past times, when there were less jobs than employees, such mistakes described in the OP would have been good reason to start searching for a replacement employee.

Randall, no announcement yet but if I recall it's mid to late January.