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You shouldn't fear an audit if the rest of your return is fine and you have all the documents for the donations.

I just use Foxit PDF viewer's typewriter feature to paste tapes into my PDFs. Free Acrobat reader has a tool to add text too but you can't right align it to make your tapes look right.

Thanks for that. That's a whole lot better than the one I've been using.

They've tried this twice(?) before and stopped both times because it cost more than it earned and made the public hate the IRS even more. Aggressive commission based collectors who actually phone taxpayers will be confused with the phone scams that are happening. I don't see how this can't be an even bigger disaster than the last time it was tried.

Abacus consumes no energy or paper and requires no ribbon. <mind blown>

Here's a link to the Facebook group, if you want to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1424243784534391/

In the User Guide it says the Admin can edit or remove a return password: 1. In the Return Manager, select the return whose password you need to reset. 2. Click the Options menu and expand the Administration fly- out menu; then, select Edit Password for Selected Return. 3. To set a new password, enter the new password in the Enter a new password field. 4. Repeat the password in the Re-enter new password field. 5. Click Save. To remove a password from a return: 1. Follow steps 1 and 2 for editing a password, above. 2. Leave the Enter a new password and Re-enter a new password fields blank. 3. Click Save.

In ATX? Yikes. I've never done that. I'd guess that ATX has a password removal tool. Call support.

From the Tax & Accounting Practice Group on Facebook: This post by popular demand. LOL. I'll preface by saying that although I really love my system now, that it's really up to the individual to find what works in their own office. I'm a solo practitioner and found many of the products out there are really aimed at teams making them bloated for what an individual needs. I'll also say that I've looked at and done trials and betas for 6 - 8 Workflow management solutions and found reasons for why each didn't work for me. Not least of which is the price tag. When you are a one-person office you have to weigh how much you can afford. The app I'm using does have an affiliate referral program, but I'm honestly so thrilled to have something that works for me that I don't even care about making a commission on the recommendation. It's called www.gqueues.com it's a Google product and the paid subscription price is only $25 per year. That's right just over $2 a month. It has the ability to put in due dates and make them recurring. Frankly that feature alone has me excited for payroll now. But it's given me the ability to list all my jobs and it lines them up for me. Now I just work through the list and don't have the distraction of all the other work on my desk.

I use an onscreen calculator with a tape: 4,545 + 1,668 - 2,877 T 4,676 + 923 - 3,753 T We copy and paste the tapes into PDFs of the records. Scans of calculator tapes were usually unreadable. My desktop calculator rarely gets turned on anymore.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/windows-7-update-solution/f39a65fa-9d10-42e7-9bc0-7f5096b36d0c?auth=1

I believe ATX was working on their systems.

GQueues is made for Google Calendar. That's why I'm going to check it out... after 10/17.

Other tax preparers have highly recommended GQueues to me. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

Sounds like they need a new corporation and a tax-free merger. Find a good business lawyer.

The estate would deduct it if it's still in the estate. If the house has been passed out of the estate, then the new owners can deduct it if they don't already have a second home. I guess if they have a second home you could call it investment interest. Hopefully, it's still in the estate.

I do miss the smell of NCR paper. Aaaaaahhhh! Oh, and mimeograph sheets that we used to get in school where the print was purple. Good times!

Totally not feasible. No email, no online backup, no research, etc. When the internet goes down, we're not quite dead in the water, but we are severely limited.

I believe they are actively working on this, and we should see some improvement in the next year.

Drake sounds lame.

The 1116 is really automatic. You just need to learn what boxes have to be entered on the K1 input. BUT if you have less than $300 single/$600 married in foreign tax, you can delete the 1116 and the tax will automatically show up on the 1040. Boom!

"Abby Something" One of the funniest lines ever.

We did have squirrels in the attic for a few months. Had them trapped and removed and they haven't been back. Need to put cages on our attic vent fans.

Thanks, Jack. I'll have the cable tested before replacing it. It made me nervous when that one cable had to be re-terminated twice to get it to work, and the casing was brittle and crumbling. Our cables run up into a hot attic, but if they test fast enough, maybe we'll leave them for a few more years.

We've installed solid state drives in all of our computers, recently, and today we installed a new gigabit router and a gigabit business class switch. Already opening ATX client list on a workstation is faster, and, of course, the SSDs make the computer faster than they were when they were brand new. Next, we're going to rewire the entire office with latest Ethernet cable. The cable we have now is almost 20 years old and some of the ends are starting to crumble a bit. The 500 GB SSDs were only 145 each, the router was 90 and the switch was 20 after a 10 dollar rebate. The wiring will probably be the biggest expense.