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I've never had a situation where only the K1 Social Security number was wrong, but I'd just send in the amended K1 with a note. The IRS will probably just toss it thought because they gave up trying to match K1s to 1040s.

I put my phone in Do Not Disturb mode whenever I'm in a restaurant, doctor's office, theatre, etc., but I never turn it off. I only had a problem once with one client who had the annoying bird whistle sound for text messages and he was getting messages every few minutes. I just asked him to silence his cellphone before I lost my mind. Why do people like obnoxious sound effects. I try to find the most soothing, shortest sounds I can for my phone. Most office phones have the most frantic, alarming rings you've ever heard, for some reason. We have our office ringers set at the lowest volume so you can barely hear them. Sometimes, we turn them off for awhile or even the whole day.

Same here. ATX has been almost flawless for me. I read the issues some users have and imagine it must be a small percentage of users, and I wonder if they have less than ideal computers that are poorly maintained? I don't know. I'm just glad it isn't happening to me. <knock on wood>

We removed the town names and the returns were accepted. The tax doesn't change without the town name.

Yes, add the 2106. I just had one of these. The 2106 didn't show up in the home office worksheet at first, but eventually it did.

I love when a word (in this case invisible) is spelled the same in English, Spanish, French and Italian because of its Latin roots. But boy we sure don't pronounce it the same!

Great idea! Since I was challenged (I think), I choose squirt guns filled with Tequila. Someone bring limes, Triple Sec and ice!

These rules are complicated as the tax code!

I want RitaB on my side and she can give my worthy opponent a good luck hug before the duel.

Here's the video I watched. The woman's eyes crack me up. She looks petrified. https://www.drakesoftware.com/service-learning/videos/new-features-for-drake-tax-2016/ And, if these are the highlights of the improvements, I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic.

Mickey Mouse: 1. Drake finally added a federal withholding schedule in 2016. Something that should have been there for decades. 2. Drake just added a charitable contributions carryover schedule. Seriously? If they are just getting around to adding such basic things as the above, I can't imagine they'll handle my complex K1s from trusts and other high end issues that my clients have.

No, mine are all same mailing address and physical address. I wish they wouldn't break this stuff on a Friday so we can't get it fixed until next week. I only posted on ATX forums. I'm going to email support now.

No Silver Spring. So far just town of Easton. An Easton return went thru on Thursday at midnight. I should try sending it with no town. It doesn't change the tax. Doing a Howard County with no town this afternoon. I'll update when that gets accepted/rejected.

Can't get any MD returns accepted. Just started last night. We are using the new town names from the drop down list. Here is the error: R000-00000-040 Maryland Individual Resident The 'http://www.irs.gov/efile:CityTownOrTaxingArea' element is invalid - The value 'Town of Easton' is invalid according to its datatype 'http://www.irs.gov/efile:MDCityTownAreaType' - The Enumeration constraint failed

Your only hope is to call the IRS payments department... but I'd drain (or even close) the account just in case.

This is the best site I've found for checking routing numbers: http://www.routingtransitnumbers.com/ I like to copy/paste the number entered in ATX to this website to verify it.

Entering W2 info: Auto-calc Box 3 and 5 Social Security wages & Medicare wages If you don't manually enter wages in Box 3 and Box 5, when you enter in Box 7 Social Security tips and/or Box 12 retirement amounts, Box 3 & Box 5 wages will be adjusted automatically.

Does anyone here have Advantage with 'concierge support'? Is ATX making support so bad that you have to cough up 3 grand+ just to get decent support?

Oooo! We need a stickied post for real estate records by state! They really come in handy. I have a a helluva time finding real estate records in some states. A lot of states keep them by county instead of statewide. Delaware and Florida come to mind. Here's MD: http://sdat.dat.maryland.gov/RealProperty/Pages/default.aspx And here's MD business entity search: https://egov.maryland.gov/BusinessExpress/EntitySearch

When a new individual client comes in, we have a checklist for setting them up. One thing we check is the state real estate records for their house (fortunately, MD has a very nice website for doing this). We need to know if they're in town limits, but we also check whose name the house is in, when they bought it, how much they paid, how many square feet the home is, and whether they've applied for the homestead tax credit. So far this year, two new clients had not applied for the homestead credit. This can save them 100s or even 1,000s a year in real estate taxes. Just an FYI as a value added service, in case your state has a similar situation.

ATX should certainly fix it for those who want to use it, and, at the very least, WARN people that it does not work.

Thanks, Rich!

Anybody that works on anything for an hour without saving, gets what they deserve. You once accused me of saving too often! Ha! No. Such. Thing. And, I've never had ATX crash where I couldn't save my return before closing.

Is it possible to be both? I did a quick search and didn't find anything definitive, so I'm saying yes.