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Now I know where to refer all those client questions to : https://www.irs.gov/help/ita

Excellent article in the Journal of Accountancy: https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2021/dec/salt-payments-before-year-end-priority-passthroughs.html How do you take a deduction for 2021 when you file an election and pay the the PTE Tax at the time you file the state entity return in 2022?

The MeF Operational Status Page is still showing start dates for last year.

I used ATX Payroll Reporting for almost 20 years before I left about 4 years ago. The workaround would be to chop up your W 2 into 3 W 2s

I took it to mean could they send someone else with their info?

How do you respond when clients ask? My response would no, unless I have a copy of a P O A

The post says he did that?

If you output and save a pdf copy, then print from the pdf copy, it should work just fine. ATX has a very long history of quirky printing issues!

I have been using Accuwage and uploading my W-2s to the SSA for at least 15 years, first with ATX now with Medlin. I did use Drake Accounting for 2 years in between ATX and Medlin. Didn't really like Drake, I didn't find Drake Accounting to be very user friendly. Never had any problems with Accuwage or uploading the W-2s thru BSO. Oregon has required state W-2s to be efiled for a number of years now. Medlin creates the files to be uploaded, works very smoothly.

Actually, my first impression is that it's a sincere attempt to improve the system.

A tsunami of anger, finger pointing and scapegoating seems to make many people feel better.

It looks like they are trying to do more front end processing to reduce the number of errors which require manual intervention and letters to employers

Yeah, I live about 2 1/2 miles west southwest of downtown Eugene, a city of about 180,000, on the west side of a modest sized hill and our cell phone reception is weak. At home our phones have to rely on wi fi to do anything.

Anyone who will be uploading client's W-2s to the SSA should revad the following document, since the SSA has changed the process: https://www.ssa.gov/employer/documents/WageFileUpload-Tutorial.pdf

I pick January 28th

Pub 17: "Found property. If you find and keep property that doesn’t belong to you that has been lost or abandoned (treasure trove), it’s taxable to you at its fair market value in the first year it’s your undisputed possession. " "Stolen property. If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless you return it to its rightful owner in the same year."

"Landowners and sub-lessors that do not materially participate in the operation or management of the farm (for self-employment tax purposes), file this form to report farm rental income based on crops or livestock produced by the tenant."

This reminds me of a quote from a book I am reading, "Your tenuous grip on reality is greatly exaggerated."

This isn't a serious question, right? You're just trying to provoke a response?

Estates and Trusts are definitely not my areas of expertise and I have decided to stop doing any work in these areas.

How long did it take you to get thru on the hotline?

Sure, but how long will it take them to open the mail and handle the check correctly?

Sara, almost all of Big Tech is doing all of those things. However, I have seen articles in "How to Geek" etc. that tell you how to turn off most of Googles tracking.

Margaret, I also recently turned 75 Although I intend to continue working part time as long as my health will let me. However I spend the majority of my time doing monthly Writeup/Payroll work, not preparing tax returns. I just counted, I will prepare less than 40 tax returns this coming tax season, 13 of which will be Business Entity Returns. If I had to prepare anywhere approaching 100 Form 1040s, I would already be retired. It's just too big of a grind! At some point my wife and will have to downsize, that will be really hard, we have accumulated way too much stuff!

Downloaded Drake 2021 and updated all of my clients from 2020 to 2021 today. Everything went very smoothly.