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You and me both! And I am nowhere near these killer prices. I am in this mostly for the sake of the clients.

I still have my "DOS for Dummies" book and assorted other junk down in the basement.

He is out of my hands now. Since he is a Construction Engineer, he spends his time in several states. His home base, though, is now Texas. (No State Tax) He has always claimed his WI rental income and maintained WI residency until this past year. Now that he purchased rentals in TX, I wanted out and advised him to find someone in TX to handle it. In the past few years, he has had W2 income from La, Colorado, NM and other states. I always filed him WI and he was current on his WI taxes. I just couldn't deal with him anymore to the detriment of my other clients.

My first printer and computer in the 90s was also about 3K. My printer was a Lexmark that we had to fool into thinking that it was a HP. Could my IBM PS1 possibly have had 4G Ram? I wish I had the money that I spent updating that first machine.

I just took a good look at my old Brother Intellifax, which is laser and can also be used as a copier as well as a backup phone. I also noticed that the copier that we love is a Canon. Just stuck in the mud on older version HP printers. I just bought one at an estate sale for $40 which came with two brand new OEM X toner cartridges. The printer itself looks as though it was never used. Just have not had time to wire it up to something and try it out.

This year I had to fire a longtime client who was a Wisconsin resident who worked in several different states but maintained rentals and residency in WI. Last year, he purchased rentals in TX (no income tax) and changed residency to TX. A really nice young man and good client but always so hard to gather information from. I knew this would be too much of a challenge and time consumer so advised him to find an accountant in TX. So far I have had no requests for assistance, depreciation schedules or anything so am relieved that I made this decision for him. He still calls and texts me as a friend, but taxes are not discussed and I wonder if he is in the same situation as is discussed above. I believe and hope that I made the ethical decision.

That is a lucid, important and good post to have at our fingertips. Backups are SO important and too few preparers realize this or understand how to do it properly. Thanks Judy.

All of the above!

I guess it really doesn't matter any more as we have been without knowledgeable help for more than two years.

Also, click on the amount of the refund or owed amount in the upper right corner of the screen. It will bring up a form for tax information for the client and page 2 has all carry over amounts.

I did NOT know this. Thanks.

One of my jump drives; full of info crashed. Apparently my assistant pulled it up as she pulled it out and broke the end off. Since she has been off since Thursday, I went on her computer and downloaded all of her returns to a newer and tougher flash drive. Unfortunately, when moving her clients to my computer, I lost all of my clients in the Netherworld somewhere. IT came in yesterday; couldn't find them so we both have new jump drives; which unfortunately are identical (because that's what I had). Putting a dab of nail polish on mine for identity. Never use the stuff on my nails anyway. What a time for these things to happen and in the midst of a Wisconsin record-breaking ice storm., and another on the way. So far I have not lost power at this location but am working long hours just in case. By the way, all of my info was still correct and where it was supposed to be on my computer and ATX. A firm reminder to run a backup of the harddrive.

Personally, I will never consider an all in one; though my son has good luck with and likes his. I prefer to use what I understand. Old dog, you know!

This old fashioned office still has a working fax machine and two land lines in addition to my cell. Believe me, that land line rings all day long unless I unplug it because of office in my home. On top of that, an entire handful of paper bill payments are in limbo somewhere and we are fighting the late fees on all of these bills. Companies are being very cooperative and checks have not cleared the bank,; but the loss of time is something that I don't need right now. End of rant.

I have four HPs in my main office and have had no issues to speak of. Of course, they are all older models and some are refurbished. I also have a HP Color printer for special things. Couldn't ask for anything better. I always use off brand toners from Amazon and V4ink. If I get a bad one, they replace immediately.

Seeing is Believing.......

Perhaps they are watching children closer than adults because of the credits. Any time we have had a rejection because of a DOB, it has been a child.

I had one rejected already this year because the birthdate was wrong. We had entered a 3 instead of a 5 so the efile grabs that right away.

Correct.

Some 1099s do have that box. Some do not. I have seen that, but wasn't able to readily find a 1099 that had it.

Put a Zero in Box 2A; then page down and look for a box to check at bottom of 1099

I mailed my Frontier bill on March 13. It was due today. Today I received a late payment notice and the check has not cleared my account. Now we have to be afraid of electronic payments and paper payments as well. Where will it stop?

Believe it or not, I had a client come in today and tell me about it. As she was writing the check to go with her voucher, she said, "This is the last check I will be able to write to the IRS!" I was really surprised as we have only known for such a short time.

They can be deposited into a Savings Account. However, I know that I will have several irate clients who simply do not trust the electronic process. I am just so happy when I can talk someone into doing electronic estimates, but they are rare. Isn't retirement looking better all the time; although that is not my desire.

You have to add them together. You can only have one form in the return.