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Btw, real estate professionals do not file a Sch C for their rentals. The designation simply makes the rentals on their Sch E non passive.

ProFx was CCH's software long before they bought ATX & Taxwise. Neither software has ever been on the main CCH site. You are just being paranoid.

Who slaves away on the 17th? I booked far in advance of knowing the IRS would get overwhelmed with ACKs on the 15!!

My acks from 4/15 were trickling in, but I had none from 4/15 when I went on vacation 4/17. When I got back Monday night, I saw an extension for a new client had rejected due to my omitting a space between the two parts of the last name. Urgh! The delay in ACKs was the IRS's fault, but I got back too late to fix it within the 5 day time frame. I printed out the ACK history and sent it in with a paper extension and an explaination. The ACK history shows it as rejected and ack'ed on the 15th though. Anyone have any other ideas on how I can fix it? He owes a bunch.

And me, my Fobbers. Fobcat. I have his memorial tattooed over my heart.

The IRS is between two rocks and a hard place with the EIC. Congress says, "get refunds out fast", which doesn't allow time to preaudit. When more controls are put into place, the tax prep industry screams, as evidenced by this year's bitching about the new 8667. When the IRS pulls any suspect returns, the preparers scream to congress & the IRS (and blames the software companies) that their clients aren't getting refunds fast enough. The only way to correct it, besides getting rid of the EIC, would be to preaudit all EIC returns before sending out refunds. And tell the EIC crowd, you get your money when you get your money.

It was in the materials that came with your CD

That is to prevent gold plans for executives while they offer tin plans to employees.

That's how I've always looked at my rejections. From within the return. The code indicates the issue isn't the dependent being claimed as a dependent, but that the dependent filed his or her own return and claimed herself. Have the taxpayer ask the dependents who filed their own return.

A self employed person covering themselves isn't going to have a penalty if they have insurance. The penalties come in to play when the employer offers insurance, but the employee portion is too expensive for the employee to afford, per WalMart's employee plan of a few years ago. Employers with 50 or fewer employees will not be required to provide insurance.

Thank you Lion. Because you've addressed the one question that the 'only criminals will have guns' crowd doesn't address: so where do the criminals get their guns? Why they're stolen. Stolen from who? From people that bought them legally. And the cycle continues.

Ok, that was my first literal laugh out loud today!

I remember when we started this forum, we all decided we wanted tax and NT posts in the same place for exactly the reason KC is making, shunted into a separate area, we might not see them we didn't want to be segregated, just to have the free flow of the community. So that's the way it is here, and if ya don't like our set up, oh well. And as for FTM & Bobbie, well, I wish you'd both just grow up. You act worse than second graders on a playground. Damn, I've been wanting to say that for a week or two now. And I know KC and I are about as far apart on the political spectrum as you can get. And I also know I'd love to sit down for a cup of coffee with her.

Drake went down intermittently all during the 15th and their customers couldn't even transmit TO them. From what I hear their vaunted phone lines went dark too. Nobody's perfect. I wonder why all the drake people aren't in here bitching?

I wouldn't do a direct debit in an ID theft circumstance. Paper check, with note as to possible ID theft.

Of course in that just born nation, guns were flintlocks and the US had no real army to speak of, nor a Navy as you mention. Militias and privateers were necessary to defend the nation. The ability of our armed forces has changed just a wee bit, wouldn't you say?

I've got one guy I keep efiling without his DOB. Never put it in and keep forgetting to ask for it. He's not affected by any of the things that are DOB sensitive, but one of these days I'll get it.

Ultra tax is a hell of a lot more expensive than Tax Works....

Mine are all at agency now. I just checked now, so I don't know when they were sent from EFC to agency. But in the past, as long as they were at EFC status, they were accepted as timely. Heck, I transmitted on back in the old days at 11:46pm on October 15: client was sending me her moms stuff by fax at 8pm! and it was accepted as timely. Those were the days it took two or three days to get ACKs.

I've never tried a debit this close to the deadline.

Drake went down around 5 or 6pm tonight per another board. I've been going upstairs to check ACKs periodically, but actually watched a movie tonight. But relax, returns don't have to be ack'd by midnight, just transmitted.

Midnight is the deadline everywhere.

I second that!

I kept my task manager open on the other screen to check usage and restarted the program whenever memory got over a gig. With 12.13 it slowed at that point, but didn't crash unless I tried to open a second return, and then it just wouldn't open the second one.

CAs standard is lower than the federal but backs out state tax paid, so it depends on why they're itemizing as to whether they itemize for state and not federal.