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I read your teaser line and looked at this the other day (and got a quick laugh.) But I fell for it again and am laughing again. I keep reading that and thinking you're in an AA program or giving up a tax-practice secret. (which half of my tax practice secret is the alcohol.....) Good grief.

The IRS will only accept e-files for the current year and the two prior years. So 2019, 2020, and 2021 at the most.

The Adobe browser extension gives you all of the standard Conversion, Edit and Sign & Protect functions. However, if you just want to open a pdf to read and/or print, it's faster to use your desktop Adobe Reader because there is a noticeable time lag when opening a pdf with the browser extension.

Yeah, a huge ballroom in a hotel with identical tables and chairs and social distancing and proctors and felt very 1984 - George Orwell not the actual year. No one talked OUTSIDE the room, either. Fear? We didn't talk until after driving to a distant restaurant for dinner after the first day was over. And not at all when we ended the second day, total zombies by then. I should've wondered around a mall/humans like Catherine to slowly return to humanity. But I drove 1.5 hours home (actually, more like 2.5 in rush hour) to an empty house. Just do it, Terry! Get that last part done. If you can parse your way through IRS Pubs, you can parse your way through the poorly-written questions. Read the question/the last sentence first so you know in what context you'll use all the preceding information, even which pieces aren't needed. Eliminate any obvious wrong answers. Basis, basis, basis. You can do it, Terry!

I never said that! I said I could make snarky comments about it - but snark is not accusation. In some ways, it's all harder now. Yes, you take the exams one at a time, and not only once a year. But I know a couple of EA-wannabes yet to take all the exams because they can re-schedule. "I'm not ready" becomes either a respite, or an excuse to keep re-delaying in perpetuity. Having that once a year hard deadline lit a fire under your feet. Yes, I agree completely - the Part 3 entities and corporations is not a fun combo. When I took the exams (2003 - the year before the hurricane event that Lion and Sara dealt with) it wasn't held in an IRS office. There was a large conference center in Boston, above the Prudential Center shopping mall, rented out by the IRS - and staffed by IRS and MaSEA proctors. We got lockers for all our stuff, and could only bring in eyeglasses. There were (fortunately!) bathrooms *inside* the cordoned-off zone. No calculators. Pencils were on the tables, and scratch paper. Seating was in zig-zags on long tables, so you could not see what others did. No pencils or paper left the area, even to go potty - they checked. I remember getting a nasty headache after the first day from concentrating so hard; wandered the mall for an hour or more letting that fade before driving home. Bought myself a cute sweater at a store - that I still have and wear! It's held up really well. We got our exams, and scores, back by mail months later. I think I still have them tucked away somewhere. Passed all with good margins but I think it was the S-corps and partnerships section that had the lowest score. AAA and OAA, and inside/outside basis, are tricky enough without adding in the conditional triple negatives! I wish you the best of success! We need more EAs.

You're kidding, right Kev? Transcripts for 2021 aren't available at the start of tax season, so that may crimp your plans.To open an IRS account, you not only have to get through all the security questions but upload a photo ID and send them a selfie taken with a cell phone. Can/will all your clients do that? I can do it, but it would require unfreezing my credit reports, take a lot of time, and I don't want to. Might be better to just say you will assume each client got the $1400 stimulus unless they prove a different amount. As for the CTC, IRS is supposed to send a letter in Jan so require that.

Recently Adobe has made available a free extension to the Chrome browser, which makes available a number of features for which we previously had to pay. I have added it to my browser and after I have used it I will make some comments. The advanced features are still reserved to paid subscribers.

A tool would be awesome. Hopefully they have one AND keep it available for a while. I still need the first round stimulus tool............

I believe you will have to wait until they efiling season opens up again.