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We are auto-renewed by Intuit and just download the software every year. Haven't had a CD in quite awhile and don't want one either. I include the install files in my backup so I have no worries about losing it like I might with a CD. We just get one license in January and buy 2 or 3 more around mid year. Sometimes we can find a sale.

We can finally copy preferences to other computers so we only have to set them up once. Yay! We can choose a default font for our letters. Double yay! We can bulk set sections of Print Packets. Yay! We can set it to enter in all CAPS so I don't have to worry about data entry folks using mixed case. We can bookmark PDFs. Nice. Zip code lookup? Thanks!

We use Nuance Power PDF Standard. We found version 1.0 on ebay for about $30.

There's a lot more in the law, including eliminating Roth conversions. http://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-proposal-would-crack-down-on-tax-avoidance-in-retirement-plans-create-new-opportunities-for-working-americans-to-save

We often don't do any withholdings for that very reason, but I'm just not sure it's technically correct. If the S corp shows a big profit, it's nice to have some extra tax paid in, especially if the client is one that doesn't make adequate estimated payments.

We like to add it to the last paycheck of the year so there's money to pay the withholdings. If you're going to issue a separate paycheck, it has to be a zero paycheck since this is a non-cash income item. We create a pay item called Company Paid Taxes to zero out the paycheck. You have to adjust it several times to get it to zero out and/or adjust fed or state withholding by a small amount.

Tesla has whole house batteries you charge with solar panels to keep you going.

Envelope handling is always the biggest bugaboo with the lower end printers. With my $99 brother printer I have to open the front and the back, flip two levers down and still half the time the envelope doesn't feed. No idea why it's intermittent. Envelope printing is very important in my office, as it likely is in many of your offices, too.

I've had a battery backup on my modem and router for at least 16 years, partly for surge protection for the modem and the network, but having the internet not go down with a power outage is a lot more necessary these days!

Firefox warns me about suspicious sites (sometimes falsely, but better safe than sorry), and Eset antivirus monitors my internet traffic and blocks malware. I have the same setup at home and since my SO is a bit naive about these things, it has saved us on more than one occasion.

Just write a letter saying she's abandoning it. Those things are worthless. The management company may have a form.

It takes effect in 2017.

And a happy, healthy and successful new tax year!

I cropped that PDF HR_34 Cures Act 2016 121616.pdf

In 2016, passwords are required to start the program. In older versions, go into Tools, Security Manager.

Browsers have some built it protection (Get me out of here!), and my antivirus (Eset) does block suspicious sites, plus I have Comodo firewall which blocks suspicious activity... so I feel pretty safe. But if you enter your login credentials on a fake site, you're on your own, especially if you use the same password on your email and other sites.

I recently got an email from a lawyer I deal with for several clients and it was one of those secure email systems. I almost clicked on it but the link looked suspicious so I replied to the lawyer and he confirmed that he had not sent that email. Clicking on links in emails has always been and still is one of the most dangerous things you can do. Did you not have any antivirus protection?

I've heard you shouldn't hang mistletoe near that kind of tree. It's a dangerous combination.

Not available as a PDF?

Congress should have done this a or two year ago instead being partisan.

It's kind of a delicate situation. You don't want a blast email/letter saying the old preparer made significant errors. The clients might think you're doing it wrong. I would first look at materiality and then handle the more significant errors individually when you meet with the client. Explain what you think the error was and ask the client if they want you to amend the return. You can't make them amend the return, and some preparers would fire clients who refuse to amend, but the ones who are getting refunds will see you as a hero. I actually had a somewhat similar situation and got a fair amount of amended work out of it, and it impressed the new clients that I knew what I was doing and I was thorough.

It's too risky to do this with the computer on. The battery or screwdriver could hit the motherboard and short something out. Just do print screens of all your BIOS or UEFI, and print them to paper. Then, after you replace the battery, make sure all the BIOS/UEFI settings are correct by going into BIOS during start up.

Sometimes the servers just don't start automatically. I bring up Windows Task Manager every morning to see if all three (2013-2015) servers are running. Sometimes, one or two have not started. I just use ATX Admin Console to start them using Windows Services is equally valid. It is also true that, even if the service is running, if any part of your system is bogged down with other things, ATX will give up trying to reach the server service.

If you dispose assets in ATX, it will also report losses on 4797, which is incorrect in this case, because nothing was disposed.

It doesn't matter where or how you back up, you still need to know where every program stores its data... unless you're doing disk imaging.