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Editing is still allowed for 5 minutes after a post is made. This change was made a couple of years ago after someone here kept going back and changing their posts after I'd responded to them, making it seem like they'd never said what they'd said and making my responses to an issue seem like I was making things up that had actually been said. If anyone sees something drastically wrong with their own post, everyone still has the ability to hide their own posts in their entirety and are able to post a correct response. Those hidden posts are still visible to Eric and I but not to the general membership. The limits on editing, and allowing hiding but not deleting posts, allows Eric and I to see the actual posts as they occur.

IRA contribution is calc'd using W-2 box 1 minus box 11. It sounds like your S corp W-2 has only the health insurance in box 1 and no actual wages were paid, and therefore boxes 3 and 5 are zero. Is that correct? If that is the case, no SEHI would be allowed because the medicare wages from the S corp are -0-, but I do think that the IRA contribution would be deductible.

@NECPA in NEBRASKA I'm so sorry for the hard road ahead that you and your family are facing. I'll keep you all in my prayers, and please know that we are here to offer support and guidance.

Hi Jim, and welcome to the forum. I doubt any of our members will be able to help with your issue as this is a site for ATX software users, although some long-time members, me included, have moved to other providers but remain active for questions other than software.

ATX programs from 2013 onward have two components, the program itself and the "server". It doesn't mean a server in a network setting, and the server component is there even in standalone installations. I believe it is part of the program that accesses the database and other files the program uses. See if this KB may help you connect the 2 pieces of the program: https://support.cch.com/kb/solution.aspx/14613

I don't have a date for ATX, but according to the IRS' MeF status page, the filing season for business returns opens on Jan 8, 2021.

Here's to a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2021!

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I'm not ready at all either. Software is available but have not bothered to download it. I did get the MFA set up though, testing it on the prior years' programs. That was very easy and no problem. Comcast was here for close to 4 hours today, initially to fix a connection issue with a spare TV in the basement, and he found multiple issues with all of our services and damage to the line on the poles on each side of the road. We have new connections and will soon have a new heavier underground cable that will give better signal because of the distance from the road, and we also now have a new, faster modem/router.

@BulldogTom I, too, am sorry about you losing the job. From some of the questions you asked about things you were tackling, I believe that he and his company will be the bigger loser to have let go a valuable employee. I know it's not much consolation, but he will have a hard time finding a replacement and will end up paying a greater price because of it.

I missed most of the week leading up to the holiday and our first tiny live tree in years, but did finally have a nice Christmas after all. The previous Friday evening I started with a high fever of 103.5+ that Tylenol wasn't touching. I was isolated and alone in a spare bedroom and bathroom the whole week and worried the whole time of what I had and what illness I'd exposed my mom and husband to. The exception to my quarantine was for a Covid test on Tuesday afternoon where my husband and I drove in separate cars. Christmas Eve I got the best prezzie, a negative test result! My husband got his negative result on Christmas morning. Glad everyone else here is doing so well.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Above was moved from another topic in Genl Chat to the Drake forum.

You enter up to $300 for MFJ, single, HH, and qual widower, or up to $150 for MFS. So if a joint couple gave only $125 in contributions, then that's all they get, not the full $300. If they give $450, they'd enter only $300 on line 10b. From the 1040 draft instructions:

The # of views does not represent the # of people viewing it. If I look at a topic 3 separate times, that is 3 views. Then there are the bots and public visiting based on an internet search, neither of which can post answers. At this slower time of year, you'd be lucky to have a few dozen actual member views in this less active subforum of the site.

Caveat - the last I used ATX was for 2011 returns, so some things within the program may have changed as to where info may be found, specifically what the e-file transmission includes. If you are still using ATX, there used to be a listing of the forms and schedules that are transmitted with each e-filing, and iirc, it had it's own tab within the EF Info form. You might have to create the e-file to see the info. Also, any of the quality programs, ATX included, should create an e-file for the states' returns that includes all the required forms and schedules for the states being filed. The exception to that would be to include the NR state as a pdf attached to the resident return if the taxpayer is claiming a credit for taxes paid to other states. Assuming that OK is the resident return and eligible to claim the credit for taxes paid to Kansas, then it seems to me that the only thing you'd have to do is to attach a copy of the non-res KS return to OK state return. So to repeat, create the e-file, check the forms and schedules that are included, attach any out-of-state returns to the resident state where the credit is claimed, and clear any diagnostics for errors or omissions.

That hasn't been announced yet.

IRS announced it will shutdown for e-filing of business returns on Dec 26th. If planning to transmit on this last day, please check with your software vendor for the cutoff time for transmitting and processing returns for e-filing. EDIT - please see Lynn's post below that ATX will stop accepting returns on 12/22. Drake software is accepting through 11:59pm on the 26th.

To alleviate concerns of practitioners having to meet with clients in person to obtain signatures on forms that are required to be filed on paper while promoting timely filing, the IRS has extended the date through which taxpayers and representatives may use electronic or digital signatures when signing the following forms that currently require a handwritten signature: • Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method; • Form 8832, Entity Classification Election; • Form 8802, Application for U.S. Residency Certification; • Form 1066, U.S. Income Tax Return for Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit; • Form 706, U.S. Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return; • Form 706-NA, U.S. Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return; • Form 709, U.S. Gift (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return; • Form 1120-ND, Return for Nuclear Decomm.Funds & Certain Related Persons; • Form 1120-RIC, U.S. Income Tax Return for Regulated Investment Companies; • Form 1120-C, U.S. Income Tax Return for Cooperative Associations; • Form 1120-REIT, U.S. Income Tax Return for Real Estate InvestmentTrusts; • Form 1120-L, U.S. Life Insurance Company Income Tax Return; • Form 1120-PC, U.S. Property and Casualty Insurance Co Income Tax Return; • Form 1128, Application to Adopt, Change or Retain a Tax Year; • Form 3520, Annual Return To Report Transactions With Foreign Trusts and Receipt of Certain Foreign Gifts; • Form 3520-A, Annual Information Return of Foreign Trust With a U.S. Owner; • Form 8453 series, Form 8878 series, and Form 8879 series regarding IRS e-file Signature Authorization Forms; and • Form 8038 series, pertaining to tax-exempt bonds. This memorandum is effective for the forms listed above, that are signed and postmarked from January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021. The above information was taken from the IRS memorandum of Dec 11th that is linked to here in this JoA article.

You could also just use the typewriter function within Adobe Acrobat too.

This document was referenced on the the Tax Book forum as an excellent resource, published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Dept of Commerce and is available at https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.7621r1 as a 54-page pdf with a sample template in the appendix. I usually don't share things from Drake, but this appears in my google search and appears to not be copyrighted. It is a template available to anyone searching the internet, and this link will launch a 20-page pdf directly from Drake's knowledge base: https://kb.drakesoftware.com/Attachment330.aspx . Both of the links above will launch the pdfs directly, but if you are hesitant to click the links but are comfortable enough if I upload the pdfs here I can do that. Please know that I've clicked both links tonight on both my main desktop and my tablet, neither of which set off alarm bells with any of the three AV software products on either device.

Let's not get off track by delving into the whys and wherefores or by choosing up sides here because we aren't going to go there. We're all trying our best to get the work done and keep our clients happy while the IRS and every other business sorts out how best to continue operating under extenuating circumstances.

Congratulations on finalizing the deal!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here and to your families! Gobble, gobble!

Other than suggestions of using apps like Google Maps, Mapquest, Trip Advisory, and summarizing in Excel, there were only 2 actual mileage summarizing apps mentioned: MileIQ and another called Trip Log. There was also a post by Danrvan about contemporaneous records that may be helpful to someone. Here are the screenshot grabs in one photo: