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Did you notice the typos in the MFJ 2016 tax table? I already let them know. No big deal. We know what they meant.

Married couples who work and don't choose to withhold at the single rate will owe. If one spouse has a low wage, they never have enough withheld. I wish they would let people choose a flat % instead of having to Married but withhold at higher single rate with 0 allowances and $x additional tax. That's just too complicated. I tell clients they need x% withheld and they ask me how to do that, so I send them to paycheck city or do it for them.

Got mine. Scanned it. Made it searchable. Happy camper.

If you receive a reimbursement for your moving expenses, how you report this amount and your expenses depends on whether the reimbursement is paid to you under an accountable plan or a nonaccountable plan. https://www.irs.gov/publications/p521/ar02.html#en_US_2016_publink1000203512

I watched a Drake video on their 2016 enhancements and it was quite obvious that Drake is too 'Mickey Mouse' for my clients. We just called support, left our number and they called back shortly and gave us the answer we needed. It was a 2014 efile issue.

Remember how noisy and slow dot matrix printers were? You had to have a sound chamber around them to keep your hearing. I remember going from a 4 minute per page dot matrix to a 4 page per minute laser printer. It was nirvana.

It's the first day of efiling. They're going to be swamped. Especially since so many users call support for the most minor things. If it can wait, email support or start a case online. I saw just the other day that you can fax support too.

The only way you can restore programs is if you have a disk image, but that only works if your disk just has the OS and programs on it because otherwise you lose your data. ATX made the choice to put your data and backups on the C drive. You can change that but it was not recommended to do so in ATX 2013.

Just login and fail 5 times then you'll get a prompt to reset with your installation code.

Just rename the extension to txt.

You should do a test restore of a few files. The rule is you don't have a backup until you're tried to do a restore.

Agree with Max, you should prorate based on the balances of the loans before the consolidation.

Goodbye?

They can only deduct the loss as ordinary if the business was 'operational' and yes, that's subjective. I think they can take a capital loss for it without filing a 1065.

I fax mine to Memphis CAF. Never had a problem. If I do I can schedule the fax for late at night or early in the morning.

My clients must be less computer literate than some of yours because I only seem to have about a 50/50 chance my clients are able to download their document from Virtru. I am considering using Zix but it would cost me about $20/mo to have it on two computers.

We can create 1040 efiles now. Just not many states available yet. Start your engines! Vroom-vroom.

I tried to create an efile for a 1040 with just a W2 and EIC and ATX says the forms aren't ready, but it doesn't say which forms and ATX's website is useless for seeing which forms are not ready to efile.

She is acting as an agent of the LLC/S corp. In this case, the only reasonable salary is 100% of the net profit of the S corp, unless she can provide a good reason for the S corp retaining cash. But if she's distributing all the cash, she's just evading SE tax.

I converted my Num Lock to a Tab key so I can tab from line to line if the Enter key doesn't move to the next line.

I hate cordless mice but they do make left handed mice: http://support.logitech.com/en_us/product/mx610-lefthand-laser-cordless-mouse

I've spent the past 15 years doing my damnedest to become ambidextrous. I've made good progress. It teaches patience too, which I certainly need.

I have this mouse and use the heck out of the forward/back buttons on the internet. And I always try them in ATX until I remember I have to do Ctrl+B to go back and click the forward button to go forward. But this year the mouse buttons work! Great time/aggravation saver. If you have a cheapo mouse, you might want to consider this upgrade.

They added a new checkbox on both create and print marked organizers to force the letters to be added, even if you had previously discarded them. You would think setting the preference to add the letter would be enough, but you'd be wrong.

But now you can split the refund into two accounts. But still that's only if filing a joint return.