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Right click on the field and choose Restore. Or click on the field and press F4 function key. I just tried it and the menu method does not work, but the F4 does. Hooray for keyboard shortcuts!

You can save half the SE tax by putting it on 8919, reason code H. I don't know if the IRS gets back to the employer when you do this or not. If you're worried about losing your job... put it on sch C.

My bad. It's purple. At least to my eyes.

It depends on the size of the returns. I can open 3 small returns at a time. I can open one large and one small, but I can't open two large returns at the same time.

The sale of principal residence is on the 8949. Sch D is little more than a summary these days.

Hard to blame us. Seminars tend to scare the crap of out us lately.

Shouldn't he have been doing payroll all along? Reasonable compensation?

ATX sometimes jumps to the wrong form on errors. One thing I learned after a few years was if you single click on a error, the cursor will be put in the field that is a problem. For some reason, I started out double clicking error messages, which does not . Now that's dense! A screen capture of the 1040 might help, but you'll have to cut off the name fields, and if the error relates to the name field, we won't be able to see it.

Look for a pink field which is the sign of an estimate. You may have accidentally pressed the F4 key.

I called support (Advantage Support) the other day and they answered within 30 seconds and solved my issue quickly, with knowledge and competence. I rarely resort to calling support but I've usually had an excellent experience with ATX phone support.

I like David as a presenter but I do not like Mary. I stopped going to some seminars because she was frequently a speaker.

I delayed all Win10 updates for the max of 35 days, until 3/1. After it updates, I'm waiting until 3/12 to defer for another 35 days until 4/16!

Ignorance?

We never gave out our actual efax number, we just had our fax line forward to the efax number, if we didn't answer.

You can get a fax modem and send faxes for free with windows built-in MSFax. You can also use it to receive faxes, but we always used a fax service for incoming so everyone could easily see all the faxes that came in. If you're a small shop with a dedicated fax line, you can set MSFax to answer automatically.

There are at least 3 ways to make this happen. I went with down and dirty, but yes, using the planner is the most elegant way. The 3rd way is to use the estimate worksheet.

You have to enter an amount on line 1f that is larger the the Estimated withholding and other payments at the top, by the amount you want the total estimates to be.

Print attachment to a PDF. Go to efile menu and choose attach file.

Idle Property Continue to claim a deduction for depreciation on property used in your rental activity even if it is temporarily idle (not in use). For example, if you must make repairs after a tenant moves out, you still depreciate the rental property during the time it isn’t available for rent. Of course, the follow up question is, how long is temporary. And I doubt the code spells it out, and makes it a 'facts & circumstances' situation (i.e., gray area). (You'll have to scroll up a bit, when you click that line. Those IRS links always seem to be off by a bit.)

You don't have to take rentals off of depreciation for extended repairs. They are still 'in service' as a rental.

When your printers were installed, was any software installed with them? If so, uninstall it. The instructions for printers always tell you to not connect the printer until you've installed the crappy software that comes with them, but you're much, much better off to just connect the printer and let windows install just the driver it needs. Do you know if your printers are using a standard windows driver or one provided by the printer manufacturer?

I always print EVERTTHING to PDF first and then send to the printer. I often find things missing or pages I didn't want to print, plus it gives me a copy of everything that leaves my office, that I can refer to or email/fax as needed.

Wow, you must be really hard on your printers. I've never destroyed one in 30 years in business. I usually replace them when they need a drum, and the drum costs more than a new printer. And, yes, I've tried low cost drums with poor results.

It's not in ours. Ours is mostly generic boiler plate, but it's almost 3 pages long.

I've rarely done this in the past, but I've already done this twice this year. But if they also have any other codes, or multiple brokerage accounts, I put them ALL on 8949 so I can match totals on the Detail tab.