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Terry I agree, and he reminds me of a customer I had one time. update 4.0.0.17 is ready and working great I will give you an update on States a little later today. Doug

In the IRS’s legal brief in support of its motion, the agency admitted it had already received “over $100 million” in user fees from tax preparers, while only spending about $50 million to implement the regulations. But the IRS objected to spending the much smaller sum of $238,000 simply to notify tax preparers of the judge’s ruling in this case. Why doesn't the IRS just make it optional to take the testing and market it where taxpayers only want to get their taxes done by some one who has taken this exam. It would be cheaper for the American tax payers and it would give the advantage to the tax preparers who are willing to participate voluntarily. By doing this it would come with rules and laws just like a drivers license, and a point system to where you could get suspended if you get to many points. To pass this test it should be made rather easy and the program should be more about the continuing education year after year, we could call it Assistant Enrolled Agent (AEA). Kind of sounds like Assistant District Attorney, but it works. If you want to become a full EA then you would take testing and Continuing education clases to achieve that over time but on the way have it ranked AEA 1, AEA 2 etc. This way the tax payer would know who is really trying to stay on top of things to get the tax payer the best deserved refund and if the tax payer did not choose to check the tax preparers credentials then that would be on the tax payer. This make no sense to anyone else but it did kind of work for the Military... Doug Hughes

Yes stay with .15 until I put out .17 in a couple hours. Doug

We changed the update back to .15 doing some checks but if it is not already back to .16 it will be in a minute. I added a auto recalculate when the return is opened instead of always having to pus the little green button. On old returns you may have to still hit the little green button. I am on the W2 issue but it will be after Midnight when we update it in a release. Doug

Boss, You can over ride but if you enter in box 12 it will change box 3 & 5 / 4 & 6. Check it out and if you have further questions please ask. Doug

Right Click and Override, I just did and that works for this.

No there is an issue with the interview mode on dependents last name that is different from the taxpayers last name but we are all over it. Doug

You can get free copies if your using it for personal use. But be careful you may be more ethical than someone else and if they get in toruble and they say you help them do it on a screen share. But it is a great way to do support and you would be supprised how many times we have asked someone have you checked that box or did you delete that and they say yes and then you find out the opposite once you get on a screen share. Doug

Linda give me some more details on what you are needing to do and where the program is limiting you.

I am getting this fixed at first I was not following you but I get it now.

Nelie, I just did a HOH return with a dependent with a different last name and mine worked fine. The name change has to be on the Client information sheet and you have to put your cursor at the end of the last name and backspace to delete it (This keeps us from making accidential deletes) and then re-enter the correct last name. Try this and let me know if you need further help on this. This was on a brand new return not a proforma'd return, is that a new return you are working on too? Doug

Crank it is all about preference, my grandfather used to say son there is more than one way to skin a cat. However I really never understood where that came from since I never saw anyone skin a cat or even want to. Doug

Taxed maybe it is you that is backwards Member Members 93 posts Posted Today, 01:25 PM Crank, I noticed that one of the programs I used in the last couple of years (there's been so many since since ATX messed everyone up) did the same thing, and, actually, I found I liked doing the 8829 first, and having the balance go to the A. For me, it was one less entry to re-type. The order I use now is - client info, W-2's, C (including 8829), E, B, A, and then whatever else might be needed. Hey, sometimes a little change can spice things up! )

If you were to do the schedule A first the tax pro would have to put the mortgage interest and property tax to the side and not enter it. The information from the 8829 flows to the schedule A, If the tax pro were to enter it twice there is no way of knowing that the accounts were the same.

I do not know what offline on chat is, so I probablly did not get your message. What is your name so I can check into your account to verify. Please note not one time have I ever asked you to email Karen only me at [email protected] so again if you want my help on this EMAIL me not Karen. EMAIL ME YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLEASE!!!! this is not because of my attitude. Doug

[email protected] and I do respond to my emails as anyone who has emailed me will tell you so. The comment you made on how many developers was saying I did not have enough when in fact if you will get the point it does not matter how many I have I am not going to create a blog this week or next. Taxed all I am asking is plain email me your issues I will address them and lets not have 40 pages on this thread not on subject but that is to late. Doug

Again please email me non thread related items. I cannot understand why it is so hard for you to email me your issues [email protected] like others do. But it also would not matter if I had 50 or 5000 developers I would not pull a single one off the tax program to create a blog right now. Doug

Terry send it again I did not get it Doug

It would not be productive to pull a developer off tax software to put them on creating a blog right now. We have 6000+- customers, and you are the only one to ever ask us to build a blog, as for keeping you informed we make a release almost everyday and I post the release notes on this site each along with the release notes I added to the update window so you would see the highlights. I have been doing taxes for almost 30 years and I have several hundred customers and not one has threatened to go somewhere else because the trust and respect they have for me doing their taxes prevents this. Several of our clients are Bank Product people too and these are typically the ones that push you the most and I would hope none of your clients think they could leave you and go to Wal-Mart (JH) and get the service you would provide them, mine would not. I was hoping you could email me these types of things so we can keep this thread on subject, it is hard for me to listen to 30 different threads that are not on subject. Doug

Agreed. Thank you we will get you and all taken care of. Doug

This will be fixed by the next release

If you do not believe what I am saying about next year and other software companies here is something one of your own community board members posted today: Newbie Members 16 posts Posted Today, 12:39 PM Give TaxAct a try. It's inexpensive, looks solid. I can't use it because it doesn't have the local/city forms I need; otherwise, that's where I'd go. After that, check out Intuit Online ($899 for 100 1040s); lacking some features, but I think this is the direction things will be going in the next few years. But be aware that it may be difficult to switch away from Intuit Online, since you won't have easy access to the return data. The there's ProSeries (solid, but expensive) and TaxWise (which personally I'd avoid, since they're talking about major changes next year, and that may be a rough ride). And then if you can afford $1495, Drake is an option, and the renewal price is generally $300-$400 cheaper.

Please email me this in details [email protected] and I will get this resolved. Doug