Lloyd Hudson

About 40 years ago I drove over the road truck. Soup can with pillar candle kept cab warm (warmer) in sub zero weather. Stranded in snow in Wyoming. More concerned about freezing than carbon Monoxide.

I thought maybe I was special and they were holding out on my screen.

We still do not have network up and running so moot point anyhow

My Solutions center/download program only has 2012. as of this moment 0900 mst

No worries for us, IT has not got new equipment configured yet..

Eating lunch at local diner, Operating a garage. Owner of diner brought out a small tv and set it on hostesses stand. Almost all businesses closed rest of day.

Ignore, scam.

Reference IRS communications, All initial communications are by letter. Calling Personal Phone?

I'd drive a 100 miles for it but not 500

If they fall under the HIPPA act tey must be subject to Graham Leach Bailey and be subjected to NCIS and Adverse background checks. Does not sound like HHS is aware of requirements.

Just a workable product. Enhancements seem to complicate things. I use ATX mainly because of input method and having ALL forms fed and state.

Southern Arizona

low 80's yesterday normal mid 90s

today low 90s

no triple digits till next week.

might have to service furnace

I have ad CAF number for years. Never filed a form. Just filed POA or 8821 and they issued me a CAF number. Have RTRP but never thought about joining the two.

Kinda what I think about "cloud" services and security. ATX or any other program or provider.

Are we going to postpone due dates until IRS gets the info in their system?

Drake provides several macros, and you can create your own.

I have macros to answer the foreign interest questions, a macro to insert my PIN and the clients' PINs,and a macro to identify Forms 1065 as SMLLC (and prevent filing it since it is only needed to flow into the State Tax return). I have one that is needed for my PIN signature in the case of someone who opts out of e-filing. I have another one for filing an extension request with zero payment.

I have several others that are more-or-less unique to my needs.

I even created one to fill out most of the EIC due diligence questions--although I don't do EIC returns.

Another feature is the Client status manager: In addition to the ones Drake provides, you can add one to indicate that you mailed it to the client, you e-mailed it to the client, your client is paper-filing, an extension has been requested. The CSM has a column for your billing, and one for payment received which you can enter and a column for balance due from the client.

You can create and print reports indicating name, address, SSN, e-mail address and telephone number of clients.

There are so many features that I'm still learning and making use of new ones every year.

The downside of all of the above is that it takes a while to learn to implement them.

Also, you can use Drake's CWU to keep up with monthly, quarterly and annual payroll totals and e-file 940s, 941s, W-2s and 1099s. CWU can also be used for bookkeeping work, but I would not recommend it since it is almost like having to enter everything like a general journal entry.

Howsome ever, I understand the word macro but I would not even to begin to understand how to create a "macro". why would I buy a software program to do a job that I have to do workarounds like I did with ATX this year. I tried Drake last summer and after the seminar and all that I could not even begin a return and then discovered that it would not prepare my transaction tax reports that I do monthly. I could do those by hand but at the same price for an all inclusive prep program that does not think like I do?

from turbotax support

Efile rejects 0510, IND-509/512, F1040/A/EZ-510, F1040/A-512, F1040/A-513, F1040A-145, F1040SSPR-512

I can attest to fact that OS and or age of machines or servers has nothing to do with the interoperability of the software program.

In desperation we upgraded all 3 workstations to win 7 64 bit, with SSD, New server with ssd dedicated only to ATX 2012. Still agonizingly slow. Memory hog? this thing never releases memory, and approaching 1 gig it will crash every time. Lose track of what your intending to do, clients wanting whatif scenarios, not a chance. All in All, while I do not have final numbers and won't for a few weeks, I suspect that this program costs us 30,000 dollars this year. (and it is only April 15, 6 months to go)

No time for anlysis but first things I think of is AMT and recapture of deprciation. Or there is a pg 2 sched E offsetting. or program is screwweed up.

After the 15th me and mine could probably give them an evaluation of a 100 items that did not work correctly and none that did work consistently. Programs still crash on efile creation, forms do not update when reopening slooooow lost assets, poor communication within program, I am tired I am still a month behind

Just another of many time wasting events,

re losing info, Either tech support or the last update turned off the auto save preference. Lost multiple returns. (info therein)

If the client has the time,m I have them call and get the 120 day option. Otherwise as it has been stated...wait on the bill.

If you did not get through, the procedure that works for us is

from within the return look at the return tab

box called imports middle one is assets

it will open box to browse to wherever your data is

called fam data

open it and there is another data click on it and it will search for the assets.

somehow we have 3 data files. takes awile but so far have always recovered.

So your are CCH and you have been working for a period of time towards this new version of ATX for tax year 2012. For the years this new version has been in development, they have been programming two versions - the old ATX in the field through the end of ty2011 and the new ATX set to debut for ty2012. At the end of tax season 2011, they execute that step in the plan that says stop making changes to the old ATX and do a full court press to get the new ATX out for ty2012. As the deadline approaches, you realize "holy cow, we are not ready." Now what do you do? You have done nothing at all with the old ATX and there is no way to get it ready in time, and the new ATX is also not ready. I don't know what choice they really had but to do what they did and live with the consequences.

The consequences are that I am ready to shoot somebody. I think that if I had advance knowledge of this fiasco I would have been up front about it. Yesterdays update was an improvement until we lost three extensive returns in the period of 4 hours. No auto save etc. Features that have worked for years no longer work, preferences and options are not retained. I have no idea what I would have done with advance info but at least I would have a choice in how much grief I wanted to suffer.

thats what 20-30 hours a week with tech support gets you.

We have prepared this return for several years, but I cannot remember how to exclude the Public service retirement from the Alabama income. Any Alabama preparers?

From the return manager, returns, then redownload forms in marked return. (down towards bottom of list.)