Linda Mathey

Hi, Has anyone else had a problem with the state taxes carrying from Sch A to Form 6251? I would appreciate any input. Thanks. Linda

I have a little different situation. My client has a rental condo in Park City, Utah. Each year we compute depreciation based on the number of personal vs rental days. This changes the depreciation percentage each year. It was lower in early years. We have some assets that based on their recovery period are beyond their original life. However they are still in use. Shouldn't we be able to continue to take depreciation up to the current % of business life. For example furnishings that cost $31,087 have been depreciated by $20686. The current year business use is 85% which would indicate that we could depreciate up to $26,424. However this year they are beyond the original life. How do we get ATX to give us depreciation or do we just lose it? Seems like since they are continuing to use the assets we should be able to continue to write off the cost up to the amt. computed by the business %. Does anyone have any suggestions or am I just not thinking clearly? Thanks in advance for your responses. Linda

Magnolia is about 10 miles NE of Atwood Lake, about 30 min South of Canton and about 10 min off RT 77 directly east of the Bolivar-Zoar exit.

Thanks, I needed a laugh!

I cannot find anyplace within ATX where I can indicate that the taxpayer was in AMT in 2006 and got no benefit from the state tax deduction. Therefore, the refund received should not be taxable but ATX is taxing it. I know I can just remove the amount but shouldn't the program be able to detect this and not tax it. Has anyone else encountered this issue? If yes how did you handle or did you just override it? Thanks for any assistance. Linda

Thanks, guess I will keep waiting on the 1099's and trying to send the W-2's

I sent three 1099 files with dates ranging from 1/14 to 1/21/08. They all still say Validated by EFC. Has anyone gotten an "Accepted" status? I also have EFiled W-2's for the past two years but this year after preparing the EFile, running AccuWage and going to the SSA website it takes forever to login. Once I login and indicate I wish to transmit W-2's it takes about 10 minutes before it comes back and says "page not available". Has anyone else had this issue?

Per SSA, the SSA 1099 that have a problem are those where the taxpayer had the premium for the prescription coverage deducted from the amount of their Social Security rather than mailing in a check for it. Those affected taxpayers will receive revised forms.

Mel, I second all those replies before me. I would definitely be interested in investing in a user-owned company. I have been very happy with ATX but feel like the others that CCH is going to drop the program after this year. Please consider what we are asking. You should also have more than enough people to test drive the program from among this group. Linda Mathey

Last year I completed my W-2's, used Acuwage to check them and log onto the Social Security website everything went smoothly. This year following the same procedures I am fine to log onto SSA, when I indicate that I am submitting W-2's the program "thinks" for about 5-10 minutes and then comes up with a page indicating that this page is not found. I cannot understand because if it was a security issue (128 bit) which I have set then I would not expect to be able to login and move thru two pages before getting this message. Any ideas of what could be wrong?

I am new to this board. I just found it a couple weeks ago. I appreciate the time taken to set it up and the input from the many people that post. I have used ATX for five years now and really like the program. Formerly I used CCH Prosystems and FastTax. Both good programs but very expensive. I hope CCH keeps ATX going or like others on this board I will be looking for something else. I love having not only all federal but all states and local returns, fiduciary, payroll, etc. TTO is a bargain.

I had this situation on a 2005 joint return. I was told if the spouse cannot sign because of injury or disease and tells their spouse to sign, he or she can sign their spouse's name in the proper space on the return followed by the words "By (your name) Husband (or Wife." They need to also be sure to sign in the space provided for their own signature. They should also attach a dated statement signed by them to the tax return. The statement should include the form number of the return they are filing, the tax year, the reason their spouse cannot sign, and that theirspouse has agreed to them signing for him or her. We followed these instructions and the return was accepted as filed by the IRS. Hope this helps.