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It's one of the top links in the reddit tax forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/tax/comments/3zf1bs/before_you_post_see_if_you_can_find_your_answer/ The IRS Tools is also helpful: https://www.irs.gov/help/tools As is this: https://www.irs.gov/help/telephone-assistance

K1s often have both suspended ordinary losses and capital losses, so when income arises, you take a pro rata share of the suspended losses. In this case it seems, all the suspended losses were 4797 losses.

You can also set your printer to be in duplex mode and skip asking ATX to handle it.

And for the dyslexic and typo prone among us...

I submit 100% of my W2s to SSA using QuickBooks. State copies are mailed in because, fortunately, all my clients are under the limit that requires them to be uploaded. QB says you can create a file to upload to the state, but I've looked at it and it takes a lot longer than just mailing them in.

Same here. One reason I tried Google Fi was the it was designed for you to make calls and send texts over wifi. I got tired of waving my phone around and walking around the house to send a text message. And that was with both Verizon and Sprint.

Cell coverage in the US is TERRIBLE compared to other countries because profit is more important than our safety. When I was in Canada, even in rural areas, I was blown away by how good my cell signal was. I was mostly on highways, but I appreciated having coverage in case I needed assistance. Near me, there are dead spots on highways and in town. It's ludicrous that ordinary citizens have so little sway over these matters. I still remember, and fume about, when AT&T and Verizon went to Congress and said that, if we let them rip us off for Caller ID, Call Waiting and Call Forwarding, they would use that money to install high speed internet everywhere. We're still waiting for that to happen, 30+ years later! They took the money and ran. Telecom bastards are nearly as bad as fossil fuel bastards and drug company bastards.

Haven't had a problem in over 7 years of being a Google Fi customer. They have great customer service and my coverage is about as good as Verizon in my area. Plus I HATE Verizon and AT&T with the heat of a thousand suns. They're just evil and I would never buy anything they're selling.

This is one reason I went with Google Fi. They switch between T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular, and if you drive into Canada, it switches to one of the carriers in that country. Data rates are prohibitive in foreign countries but calls and texts are free or reasonable, and you can use wifi for data at no charge. You also have the pleasure of using pure android OS and not some poor alternative by Samsung or whoever, with a bunch of branded apps that you don't need.

The banks and brokers will almost never cut off properly. You have to manually break it down between the decedent and the estate, every time (In my experience).

May your hearts and your holidays be light!

That was probably a story from the good ole days when the Practitioner Priority line was not tied up by business that sell places in the queue.

Too long, but time is on your side.

Sending it back with a note to apply it all to 21 is the best option.

Get a free Google Voice number and give that out as your firm's cell #. Then you can type texts on your computer and receive texts, too. All of your texts will now be in one place that you can access from anywhere, and not just stored on your cellphone. You can decide what happens when someone calls that number. We have ours set to just take a message.

Thanks! Yes, that's the correct tab and you don't need to check the box if you're only entering PAL carryovers. Now, ATX needs to update the jump from the 8582 to take you to that tab and not the one where you can't enter anything. And, they should add a jump from the tab you can't enter anything on Sch E to the tab where you can.

ATX must have changed this and it's been years since I've had to do one, but I cannot find where to enter this. I've been all over the Sch E and the 8582, to no avail. Thanks! Edit: I found the answer in the Knowledgebase. You have to check a box on the Sch E Loss Limitation Input tab.

I thought they meant that if you click on a link in PDF that it will open in Edge and not your default browser. But you're right, most of the time you open your browser first and then search.

My 4868 form customizations make creating efile extensions a lot faster, but still, having to create one at a time is ludicrous.

Microsoft is back to it's old tricks. https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/amp/

I stopped using CCleaner because it was clearing all my settings in Firefox add-ons, which was terrible annoying. I set all my browsers to clear the cache when closing, but I don't clear cookies or site data because it makes logging in that much harder. But Firefox does have an 'Exception List' to save cookies you want, so once I've done that for my regular sites, I'll have FF delete cookies and site data on close, as well.

Account transcripts are available anytime and are very useful for estimates, amounts applied forward, stimulus checks and (I assume) child tax credit payments. But, yes, wage transcripts aren't useful before summer, or even fall. They used to be partially useful around late March but recently I've seen them blank into summer months.

I encourage all my clients and friends and family to get an IRS account. I've had one for a very long time and it's extremely convenient.

I too use the highlighting feature to show clients where to sign when I'm sending them forms electronically.

It doesn't allow you to edit the existing pdf but you can use the typewriter function to type anywhere on the document. We use that to put notes on client records or to paste in a calculator tape.