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I can tell she knew nothing about it because I asked her questions, leaving her to answer the way it was on the prior year and when given the opportunity she obviously knew nothing about a tax return.

New client this year parents have been long term clients. Last year they went to a CPA/JD b/c they got their roommate a large refund. She said the whole appointment was just odd. Never asked questions just took w2 and created return. She is an Admin assistant at a college made 29k preparer put 4800 of cash contributions and 8800 fmv non cash contributions with a 9000 cost basis. For misc deductions they put 1300 dry cleaning and 900 telephone. I knew something was up so I started doing her 2013 return and asked her about charity for this year and she said maybe a bag or 2 of clothes 100-200 max. At that point I asked her about the previous year and she said she had no clue this was on there just that the whole experience was odd. I am half tempted to turn the preparer in as I am sure he is doing this to multiple people. They also received the refund in their bank account and issued her a check. The prep fee was $190 but they tacked on $89 of Admin fees to process the check for her. Thought?

We stuck with ATX. It works better than last year so far and no one really felt like learning a new software when this was still doable.

It is working better than last year but dont be fooled all they did is move the crap out point to a level they hope most users will not reach. To completely fix the software they need to get out of the 1900's and develop a 64 bit program.

I disagree any time he gets in the car for referee related activities is a business deduction. If your position is that the field is the place of business then even out of town would not be a deduction but only a commute.

Anything allocated to equipment that is fully depreciated would be recaptured as ordinary income. I had an issue like this where we allocated the entire sales price to goodwill as the assets were basically worthless and it was the name of the business that was the driving factor. Keep in mind goodwill is recaptured as well over the book value.

I wish they would install a warning that would pop up when your resources are getting close to causing a crash. We had 2 returns this past week where the screen went all green and then crashed. I guess we just need to periodically check on the memory usage level.

Software eventually works but at random times a box pops up saying it can't connect to server. Is this something we need to keep an eye on?

I just looked for it and it is a very small box above where you would enter the $ amount of the asset.

ATX Kriten said there is a box you have to check in 2013 on the asset entry screen asking if the vehicle is leased before you can enter the amounts.

So no one has tried to enter a leased vehicle?

When entering expenses for an auto the space for lease amount is blocked out from entering any data. How do you get around this issue?

I disagree I have come across many CPA's and EA's that should not be preparing returns.

That is pretty funny. Not sure they have ever addressed a problem successfully. At least its not working at a snails pace.

I have a return I am trying to import 5 k1s to and it tells my there are no returns with corresponding ein's or ss's? I have verified the numbers to be the same on partnership and personal returns so that isnt an issue. Any thoughts?

Out of curiosity where are you seeing this?

Dont buy into these scare tactics. Take the numbers the client gives you if they looks suspect question them but dont get tied up in the nonsense.

I trust you as I don't think you have any reason to lie to me. I was just saying that under the preferences it gives the option to disable automatic backup. Now if there is some other backup running then there is no reason for them to allow a user to disable the automatic backup process.

I heard 8829 isnt needed if using safe mode. Is home office deduction still showing with the 8829?

I was creating a 2106 for a client yesterday and there was no 2106 on the drop down list. Fortunately I was deleting the Schedule C so I moved the assets to Sch A then deleted the sch c completely went back to the asset entry and sure enough 2106 was available. Not sure why it did this.

I have a box I can uncheck the automatic backup under preferences-backup. Is this feature deactivated?

Mine wasnt even backing up that I was aware of until I went into the admin console I ran the backup and it created some folders.

Is the backup on the Server or each workstation? I am assuming the server and based on what you are saying If we have a 2 250GB hard drives and over 1000 returns we wont make it.

Looks like that cheap open source Raven is up to its old tricks.

If you did a cost segregation analysis on the property I guess this still would not work. Is that because you cant break the roof out from the rest of the structure?