swgordon

Michael, I find that to be the case with the states even with Prostyems fx. Most of those state credits have to be manually entered in the state forms section for them to show up on the state returns so that's not a big deal. What I've heard so far makes me think it might be a good fit for me. The one thing I'm concerned about is the diagnostics. Will it tell you if there is a form missing, not eligible for efiling, or do you just have to know??

Tom, so you are saying that ATX won't maintain and update depreciation on an annual basis within the software?? Lion, the PPR quote that I got for Prosystems was around $80 for individual and $95 for business after efiling. Plus there was other fees for efile modules for each state, etc.. It seemed like it would cost me close to $4000 just to be able to do the 30 or so returns that I expect to do this year.

I currently work at a CPA firm and use Prosystems fx and I love it. It seems that it can do anything that is needed of it. However it's very expensive and cost prohibitive for me. I'm looking to buy something that I can use to do returns on the side with the hopes of eventually going out on my own full time. I want to start out with the right program as I dont want to get something and then have to migrate after 2 years. Would you recommend ATX to someone starting out? It seems like it had good reviews on the AICPA annual tax software write up but I just keep reading bad things about it in alot of the message boards that I have visited. But like anything, the small amount of people that don't like something are going to complain and the majority that do remain silent. I got a demo and so far I like it, but I have not played with it too much. Is ATX worth a shot or should I maybe try Lacerte (I also got the demo and so far it's a bit confusing) or just suck it up and pay the money to start out with ProSystems. I have tried Proseries and I think it is absolutely horrible. I bought the PPR version last year and tried to do a couple of returns on it and ended up just doing them on ProSystems instead because it was so confusing. The things that I have read about ATX is that customer service is horrendous and it's not good for complicated returns (complicated K1s, etc..).