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Thank you all for the donations. I apologize for being such a slacker about responding to each of them individually. My work has increased considerably due to COVID-19, but I'm hoping to see that decrease a bit now that summer is arriving, which is usually my slow time. We'll see, though--everyone is looking for ways to do things online that had ordinarily been done in person before. Thank you all again! I hope you're all staying healthy and sane.

Is that one of the new Revenue Officers being hired?

But my tech skills are the same as my music preferences....stuck in the 80's and 90's. Tom Modesto, CA

I don't know where the name originated but maybe Eric would since he worked there. Based in Caribou, Maine, and Ft. Pierce, Fla. ATX Forms was founded in 1992 and owned by brothers Glynn and Steve Willett. The company's tax software under the ATX Forms name was MAX and Saber. Glynn Willett agreed to stay on for roughly four years when UCG purchased ATX Forms in 2002 to oversee the company’s tax research and software business. UCG is the company that had Kleinrock. I started with Saber, and it started with a tiger roar upon launch. iirc, it was some sort of excel-based program, but I could have that confused with some other program at this point. I also had something called Zillion Forms around the same time. https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/kleinrocks-ucg-acquires-atx-forms

Then you almost certainly need to do a trust return.

Does the K1 have the client's ssn or a trust EIN?

I remember Zillion Forms! Hadn't thought about that in years and years.

Makes two of us, I cannot stomach today's music and I am still a young whipper snapper, I can listen to classic rock all day.

I may be wrong Abby, but it could be....Athletic T Rex...

My first job out of college was using UltraTax. When I started my own practice in 1997, I used ProSeries PPR. In 2001, I switched to ATX. Looked at Drake in 2012 but could not make myself pull the trigger. I probably should have, so now I am ATX for life. Tom Modesto, cA

The two firms I worked during the years 1981 through 1995 both used CCH ProSystem. Once on my own, I used ATX for tax years 1995 through 2011 and now Drake starting with 2012 tax year.

Loved that roar! Still miss it...

Couldn't find anything on it, but years ago a venture capital trio of people in Austin, Texas put some money into it, so maybe that has something to do with the ATX name.

This is why Gmail was created. But I agree with getting your own domain. And I would have your domain email addresses just be set up as forwards to a Gmail address, because Gmail has great spam filters, and if you ever change who's hosting your domain, you don't have to worry about porting all of your emails to the new host. You can set up Gmail (under Accounts) to send using your domain email address (alias) so your clients never see your behind the scenes Gmail address. That way you can easily see your emails on your mobile device and reply to them as if you're at your computer. Gmail is a bit persnickety setting up alias email addresses. We were able to use smtp.gmail.com on some of our computers, but we had to use our local ISP's smtp on the rest of the computers. It works the same regardless of which smtp site you use.

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@sbcglobal.net (originally tied to @yahoo.com) still works after about 6 years on cable internet. Sign-in is more of a pain in the a$$, since att separated from yahoo, but it still works.