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Yes, I agree.

Our latest forecast is for more snow starting tonight into tomorrow afternoon -

Are all the functions at the top of the reply box grayed out? If they are, you might have clicked on the top left button for "BBCode Mode". Click that again and those functions should no longer be grayed out and be active again.

Where might I order one of those?

You can't unmark it, but all of the topics will still remain in the same order with the most current activity at the top. If you were on yesterday, you can look down the list and see which topics have new postings since then. It is probably only about a dozen or so. I was only on for a few minutes earlier this morning and I wasn't having any trouble then or now.

Yeah, I think we all were too. I went back and put a smiley in my post. Now, do not expect me to part with my Pentel mechanical pencils though. I do still use those to write in a real appointment book. lol

JB has only the individual program, not the payroll compliance program. He was looking for a solution for preparing one 1099 without having to purchase the other program.

I used my typewriter once or twice a year, so when it finally broke last year I decided not to replace it. Every time I used the shift key it raised those letters up 1/2 space. It's been years since I used 13-column paper, but I still have some of that too.

I used a 7-year life for those type trailers that are owned by my landscaper clients. If you look up the class life, 5-yr property includes trailers and trailer-mounted containers (class life 00.27). That sounds like larger tractor-trailer type trailers to me, but it doesn't specify the size. Maybe I was wrong to use the 7-year life, but I treated it like other general equipment.

If you don't want to file online, you can still order the red printed forms from IRS. I have a few extras of the 1096s and 1099-misc too that I could send to you if you want to prep that way.

Last year I had a client give me the info after I'd cancelled ATX, so I used this online service. It's a couple of bucks and you can print and mail the recipient copies with the service efiling, or for an extra dollar, the online service will also handle the mailing to the recipient. It's very easy to use. If I needed it again this year, the client and recipient info is still available there for me to create from: http://www.efilemyforms.com ETA - price is $2.99 for e-file only per 1099 for up to 50, $3.49 if they also mail to recipient. JohnH recommended this site to me last year.

1099 prep is done in the payroll program of ATX.

Thank you, Mr Pencil. I've been reading this topic and trying to picture me asking some of my existing clients for their driver licenses, birth certificates, and SS cards. Some of my clients I've known for 50 years, I went through school with their children, and have been preparing their returns for 30 years. Now I'm supposed to verify that they are who they say they are?

Does not compute. March lull? No such animal around here. I don't have any that come in Jan, had 4 by the end of last week. Clients are starting to come in now and a few of the business year-ends. Almost all of my more difficult individual returns are done in March. I don't have any lull until late summer and fall.

This video actually made me laugh out loud. Kitten vs gecko -

I'm not quite overwhelmed yet, soon will be. My clients are calling and dropping off earlier, for sure.

Atlanta is in the middle of an ice storm. ATX shut down and sent everyone home with the last one, so perhaps that is why no one is answering. I am able to log on to MyATX, so I can't say about their servers.

FTM, I sent you a PM about Drake. Taxxcpa's suggestion would require that you purchase the unlimited package for full price if you wanted to include the payroll returns. In my PM I suggested that you consider Drake on a PPR basis for $285 that would give you all the forms they offer and ALL STATES. The $285 includes 15 returns on the PPR basis, so you could use that as a backup and for those returns that you want the 2106EZ, and states that TaxAct doesn't allow you to have, and any other forms that may not be available to you. It's $19/return after the first 15. ETA - Drake's demo is FREE. It is a fully functional complete program from last year. That would allow you to see if your system has any trouble running it. Support is phenomenal.

If it was working before you blew it out, I wouldn't worry about those last little wisps. If the keyboard is still working after this cleaning, keep on using it.

Your client will pay tax on it on the 2013 return, but you can calculate the portion that would have been taxable in that earlier year, and if that is less and results in less tax, then you elect to do that. ATX had a nice worksheet that was accessed from the social security input screen that allowed the preparer to enter the relevant data from the earlier years' tax returns. Open the worksheet for line 20, and if it is similar to earlier years, you'll see down toward the bottom a place to jump to the SS Lump Sum Worksheet. IRS pub 915 has a good explanation with an example. Look at the section "Lump Sum Election" : http://www.irs.gov/publications/p915/ar02.html#en_US_2013_publink100097893

Yardley, no setting exists that allows you to enter cents and have the program round for you. If some areas of the program are still allowing you to enter dollars and cents, I suppose you could continue on as you've done in the past and correcting those areas that are generating the error messages. It seems to me that you'd be better off being consistent by making all of your data entry in whole numbers though.

I want to add to the above - Since your client knows the rules and this cleaning person supposedly knows the rules, your client should not be writing any more checks to this person until the W-9 is received. The loss of income should be significant enough to this person to compel compliance. If the person still refuses, your client should find a legitimate cleaning service.

Yes, your employees should each be able to create a unique user name and password. The process includes providing an email address that is associated with the user name, so long as that is not the same as yours it should work. If you want to have them appear to be associated with your firm, they could indicate that in the signature line that appears in posts they make. I'm curious, does the official ATX forum have some sort of limitation on firms' employees that can log in and use that? Since this is an unofficial forum that is privately owned, there is no such restriction here.

Post offices will be closed on 2/17/14.

Yes, I had one too. Return filed on the evening of 2/4, refund is supposed to be DD tomorrow, 2/11. I have 2 other early clients with large refunds expected but haven't checked on those personally.