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Do you have a link to it? I downloaded one from Wolters Kluwer. It could be identical... or not. https://www.cchgroup.com/media/wk/taa/pdfs/news-and-insights/federal-tax-legislation/house-gop-tax-cuts-job-act.pdf

PDF995Suite, Nuance PDF Standard and I'm sure many others will add passwords to PDF files. https://www.google.com/search?q=password+protect+pdf&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab

I don't see how you could delete or even edit that line in this year's or last year's software.

They were afraid (and rightfully so) that repealing the mandate would throw the insurance markets into turmoil, so they are giving everyone a year to plan for it.

Do they really consider Sch Cs a pass-thru entity?

I recently subscribed to KPMG's Tax News Flash. It's way more than I need but I just skip to the relevant articles. Plus it's free. Long time reader of Dave & Mary Mellem's emails. I think you can subscribe by just emailing Mary at [email protected]. Forbes has some good tax writers like Tony Nitti.

If my W2s Boxes 1, 3 and 5 didn't agree with my 941s, I'd get new software.

If your W2s don't tie to your 941s, the IRS will ask why. I'd rather avoid unnecessary letters. Besides, when we add health insurance and personal use of vehicles in QB, the 941 & 940 come out correctly and do tie to the W2s.

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Yeah they better advise everyone to fill out a new W4 with fewer allowances, or a lot of folks are going to be facing a huge balance due when they file their 2018 tax returns.

That's even more work. No thanks. I only export once a month or so. Exports are my last resort. I'd rather restore the actual data from my backups, or restore my backups from my ATX's backups.

If you're in a state with an income tax that requires you to itemize for federal if you want to itemize for state, and also has a low state standard deduction (I'm looking at you Maryland!), you may find yourself taking itemized deductions on federal even though they're lower than the standard deduction because you can save more in state taxes than it costs you in federal taxes. I've been doing a lot of that for years. I also play with taking a lower sales tax amount instead of income tax itemized deduction in various situations. Sometimes it results in a higher tax but the state income tax refund is not taxable next year and saves taxes overall taking the 2 years together. Did someone say 'tax simplification'?

But it's not nearly as sexy as the Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500.

Are you choosing Transcript Delivery System? When you get to the login screen, if the first 3 characters of the URL are la2, change that to la1. Or just click here.

You can't 'save' the return to a thumb drive unless the entire database is on the thumb drive. If you have your backup location set to the thumb drive, you can close the return and ATX will automatically create a backup to the thumb drive. That's why I reacted confused to your post.

A 2018 MTG is for 2017 because... taxes aren't confusing enough, we have to make it harder.

No I meant Edward Jones not AG Edwards. Rusty brain cell.

Persistent Login for various CCH Tax Research websites (Intelliconnect, CodeConnect & AnswerConnect) If you login at intelliconnect.cch.com, there are 3 checkboxes to remember your user name, password and to remain logged in. If you check all 3 boxes, you will remain logged in at CodeConnect and AnswerConnect as well. Just make sure you don't delete any cookies for cch.com and wolterskluwer.com.

Use the Find function on the efile screen.

Alternately, you can go here and scroll down to Transcript Delivery System: https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/e-services-online-tools-for-tax-professionals

It's been working for me after I discovered that you had to start here: https://la1.www4.irs.gov/pub/rup_login_1?TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-3e42c2f4-1c41-0019-0000-25b0000025b0&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=lgjzN0Exzjjq7GXjaIQAtum2VjVbftpJfXjCX5EEznNQ6gB2VzGstn8fCh3KSapr&TARGET=-SM-%2fRUP%2fnewSelectPersonality%2f%3fTYPE%3d33554433%26REALMOID%3d06--2f74c77e--1252--100b--8426--83fa129f0cb3%26GUID%3d%26SMAUTHREASON%3d0%26METHOD%3dGET%26SMAGENTNAME%3dlgjzN0Exzjjq7GXjaIQAtum2VjVbftpJfXjCX5EEznNQ6gB2VzGstn8fCh3KSapr%26TARGET%3d--SM---%2fesrv-%2ftds-%2f

AG Edwards gives me electronic access to MTG every year, but I don't need it because it's already included with ATX.

Pretty sure it's two years.

If you don't use the 1099-G, you'll never get a red error. Just sayin'!

I submitted that very suggestion in the official Enhancements forum, just last week. Tip: Use customize master forms to enter the interest rates.