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File an extension. Our efiled 990/990EZ extensions went through fine.

Crap. I'm getting ready to send one.

"Business travel" & "Transportation" are two different paths to the mileage deduction.

The standard deduction is completely disallowed for AMT. With itemized you at least get partial.

I'm just telling them to wait. No one has protested yet. I'll revisit this in 3 weeks.

Same in MD, unless they change the law... which they've indicated they might. I'll have to remember to remind those going from itemized to standard for federal that their state taxes are going up, pending any changes the states might make.

Haven't rolled many with fixed assets over but not problems so far.

It depends on the user, but in this case it's just an experiment to determine the cause of a problem. It should be a short term experiment. But I disable my security software for installs and downloads on a regular basis. My antivirus lets me choose to disable for 10 minutes, in case I forget to re-enable it.

Unless it qualifies under the transportation or 'no regular place of work' rules. https://www.irs.gov/publications/p463#en_US_2017_publink100033913

I'm sure it can be fixed, but it's been malfunctioning for 6 months and ATX says they're 'working on it'. They probably need to spend thousands to move to a new platform and just can't bring themselves to do it.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/827167400659499/ ATXKristin just joined the group. She's the best responder on the official forum. If the official forum doesn't get fixed, the facebook page might largely replace it.

Trying going directly to the page: https://community.atxinc.com/forums/ People always complain about having to log in, but when you bookmark the page, it never asks you to log in.

Maybe you were banned for leaving a negative comment.

The additional columns would be more useful if ATX calculated the reduced child tax credit as kids turn 17. Also putting in an inflation factor screws up the child tax credit by applying inflation to the credit. Off to the official forum to let them know!

It's been suggested in the official forum multiple times to let us choose the number of columns. If you have a PDF editor and patience you can delete the unwanted columns. I've done it twice in years past but I'm just spending the toner and printing it all this year, because everyone is getting one.

I've asked MD to consider it before, but they replied that they would then have to verify 1098s and they didn't have that info. Nothing else on Sch A is really verifiable with information forms and the states usually don't allow state income tax as a deduction. MD standard deduction has been unchanged for decades. That's the real problem.

Singles with standard deduction (both young and old) are getting small tax cuts. Married, sold middle class, with multiple kids and modest itemized (16k) are seeing the base tax go up by 750 - 1k (due to losing 4 or 5 personal exemptions), but offset by 2k child tax credit... until the kids start hitting 17. And no one has hit the 10k SALT limit or had 2% items. Those come later. Biggest concern, standard deduction folks are seeing withholdings go down by more than their actual tax decrease. Example, older married couple, no kids, tax decrease was 800 but withholding decrease was 1,300. Not bad if taxpayer normally gets big refund, but this couple gets a small refund.

I did one last year for a family partnership that owned a large farm, that was sold after both parents died. A trust was created when dad died, and an estate when mom died, and the trust dissolved on mom's death and was split to the kids... yeah, I likely screwed this up but the end result looked reasonable?

Maybe we should map the point that results in the shortest distance for most of us and see if any of us are near that point. Going to Dollywood is not really my thing, although with this group of wackos, it could be a very memorable experience!

This might help. https://support.cch.com/sfs/solution/Unable-to-view-returns-in-Rollover-Manager-in-a-standalone-install-of-ATX-2013-through-2016

Good luck!

Freezes are often due to security software. Turn those off for awhile and see if it improves. Also, keep task manager open and see if it's your disk bogging down or CPU.

Yeah, I've had that a lot over the years. I can almost always x out and keep rolling... but not always.

Did you update to 17.3? Did you delete the temp folder?

I think it might be fixed in latest version. I just deleted my entries and it's fine. Oddly enough, these folks were retired NJ cops who thought they'd qualify for the subtraction.