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You don't duplicate it, you do a rollover. When you click on the rollover tab, you have two tabs: 2013 and last Month/Quarter. Choose Last Month/Quarter. Then choose the return you want to do a short year on. This will make your beginning depreciation and other rolled over numbers correct. As for efiling it, it sounds like you have to call ATX to get them to allow it. I've always just paper filed.

MDEA is right. The EFIN should be in the firm's name. http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/e-File-Providers-&-Partners/FAQs-About-Electronic-Filing-ID-Numbers-(EFIN)

"ATX appeared for a second year to have largely recovered from its technically troubled 2013 season. It continued to regain market share, and users gave it an overall satisfaction rating near the average for all major products. Notably, nearly 90% of its users would recommend it for a new tax practice, second only to Drake in that regard " http://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2015/aug/2015-tax-software-survey.html

You never got down and back up again. woot-woot!

How is dancing two-dimensional?

Just hide the update in Windows Update by right-clicking it and choosing hide update. Saw a thread on this in an IT forum I follow and the poor IT guy had employees getting popups everyday reminding them to install the update. His fellow IT guys were telling him to do registry edits and group policy edits and all kinds of techie things. I suggested he just hide the updates, like I did. Sometimes techies can't see the forest for the trees. I guess a lot of people have never hidden an update and might not even know it can be done.

Are you sure it's an NSF penalty and not a late payment penalty? Seems awfully high.

We're hoping the law will be changed by year end. A lot of business groups are pressuring congress to permanently fix this like they did for 2014.

Have you noticed that every Monday, the ATX Servers are not automatically running when you start your computer? If you leave your computers running 24/7 then you probably won't notice this, but our computers shutdown automatically every night (Scheduled Task). I first noticed it when one of my staff wanted to access ATX before I had run it on my computer (workstation/server), and they could not get in. And when I start ATX on Monday, the window pops up and shows the servers starting. I had asked ATX if I had 10 years of programs on my computer would I have all 10 servers auto-start all the time, but ATX did not understand my question. I'm pleased to learn that the answer is no. It will just start the current and prior year server services.

It's quite normal. Windows is just asking your permission to let ATX run.

I updated my 6 yr old cracked screen win7 home laptop to win10 with almost no glitches. It froze the first time it ran but after I powered down, it came back up just fine. I know you all love 7 but I'm so glad to be done with it.

I don't even like all of my clients, much less want to be friends with them!

I changed my cellphone number and none of my clients has it unless they are also a friend.

Yeah, I would add artists to that list. Especially the ones that refuse to use computers.

I recently discovered that my clients don't understand cash basis and are giving me amounts paid before or after the year because "it was for that year", and, conversely, not giving me amounts paid during the year because it was for another year. I'll have to work that into my organizer letter next year.

I hear what you're saying, Sara, but I've seen a upswing in IRS audits the past few years. They're all correspondence audits over either Sch C or Sch A. I'm currently awaiting resolution of two audits. Prior to the past few years, I only had two audits over a twenty year period.

We have that exact situation and we add the allowance to box 1 of the W2. Plus we also add the gas reimbursements to box 1 of the W2 because we do not know if it is more or less than the standard mileage amount because the employees are not accounting for mileage to the employer. This leaves the employee to report their mileage on the 2106 and subtract the amount of reimbursements the employer paid for gas and allowance. http://www.irs.gov/instructions/i2106/ch02.html#d0e429 We've tried for years to get them to just report their mileage and get reimbursed a set amount per mile, but we can't get them to switch, even though we tell them it would save both the employer and the employees taxes. Their reason: this is the way it's always been done.

Thanks! That's all very good to know.

Don't agree with 100% of what this guy saysbut I thought it might be useful to the Win7 users here.

Not sure I understand your questions, but ATX creates the organizer in the prior year's software and populates it from that year, putting the prior year numbers in the appropriate column. Pretty much like every other software I've ever used... and I've used a few.

So weird. Thanks!

I didn't build it. My IT guy did. He also helped pick out the parts.

They also never put enough USB ports on the backs of these computers.

Really? Just the parts for my computer were $1,200 back in 2012. Then I paid my IT guy $300 to build it. 1 Rosewill Blackbone Computer Case $39.99 1 CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 Power Supply $144.99 1 ASUS Black Blu-ray Burner SATA BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS $79.99 1 Western Digital Black WD1002FAEX 1TB Hard Drive $109.99 1 ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 Motherboard $139.99 2 Kingston HyperX 8GB Memory $79.98 1 Galaxy 64TGF8HX6FTZ GeForce Video Card $89.99 1 Galaxy 63TGS8HX3XXZ GeForce Video Card $59.99 1 Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz Processor $319.99 1 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional 64-bit $139.99 Subtotal $1,204.89 3 Day Shiping $10.70 Order Total $1,215.59 I needed two video cards because I have 3 monitors. Speaking of which, the above does not include monitors, keyboard or mouse. So all in my computer is about $1,900. Yes, I know you can buy a prebuilt ASUS for $800 but the graphics are built in, the processor is a little slower, it only has half the RAM, no monitors included and the keyboard and the mouse suck. I actually did buy a $500 prebuilt ASUS (no monitors) for a data entry station and it's fine. But my computer is also the server so it needs to be beefier.

The 1041 instructions say you can use the accrual method but there doesn't seem to be a check box on the form to indicate that's what you're doing. Am I missing it?