Catherine

OK, Judy - but I will respectfully disagree with you, because one way to cost-shift without being blatant is to be un-accommodating and dense. Eventually people give up trying and go buy for themselves. Maybe it's not at the level of "hey everybody, play dumb and maybe they'll go buy forms at Staples" but there certainly is no indication of the service trying very hard at all to help US out these days.

So once again the service effectively shifts costs from themselves, to us. You, in this particular instance. Yes, worth it (sometimes, at least) when WE choose - but royally annoying when it gets shoved down our throats. [NOT meant to be political!!! It's just factual that they save money by shifting costs onto us; no commentary on why or how or who's to blame.]

Yeah, ain't that quite the word?! "Just" is sometimes the size of the Taj Mahal. Then again, sometimes it's even bigger still!

I used to use Sage Accounting and would still prefer it except none of my clients are capable of handling it, more's the pity. And not only do I not have an iPhone, I still have a *stupid* phone! Voice and text only; no internet, can't even send or receive pictures. Maybe that means I pre-date the dinosaurs. Puts me in with the slime molds, perhaps?

I print it to go with the Payer copies, for my clients. Those "in the know" want/expect to see it. And once, some years ago, a lower-than-expected 1096 total clued in a client that he had missed a contractor - we were able to file the missing 1099 on time. He would not have looked through the stack; he just saw the total and thought "Wait, something's not right here." So I'll keep printing it as long as I can.

Have you tried smoke signals? Although it might be hard getting those reinforced concrete buildings to catch...

That is just perfect! How many times do we get further confused on reading the official instructions, after all? Back in my failure-analysis-engineering days, I had a sign in my office. The last statement read, "But we think that we are confused at a higher level, and about more important things."

The courtesy is for the IRS employees - so they have a shorter queue of calls to answer, and so feel less pressure. After all, we would not want the IRS drones to suffer tension headaches at work, would we? Those are for US, in dealing with THEM.

Y'know, just *thinking* about doing it is probably close to 85%* of the satisfaction of actually doing it, with zero Circular 230 repercussions. Plus, we all got a very interesting forum topic out of it. That help at all, or are you ready to glare at me for my cheek? (*Of course, 93% of all statistics are made up at the time of use.)

efilemyforms is what I switched to a year or three ago. Set up clients and recipients once, and it all carries forward year to year. They print, mail, and efile (including states) for $3.49 per form (then you charge your client whatever you want, to cover your login time and trouble, plus cost). And you get full pdf's (all copies, almost instantly) to download for your records - so when Joe Ninny calls in August saying he lost his payer copies, you can reprint those and charge him for that time and trouble, too. I have used QuickBooks, Drake Client Write-Up, and several other iterations over the years. These online folks have been the easiest to deal with overall.

MalWareBytes - it's free (upgrades to paid licenses also available and pretty cheap too). Different from anti-virus software and CCleaner. Searches for deep rootkit issues. Belt, suspenders, duct tape, and staples... one would hope that would be enough!

MalWareBytes - it's free (upgrades to paid licenses also available and pretty cheap too). Different from anti-virus software and CCleaner. Searches for deep rootkit issues.

They just never stop, do they?!

You (or someone) could try to get the alternative media to do an expose. Breitbart, Project Veritas, newsy bloggers, that ilk. What used to be known as the press (see, Judy, I am avoiding giving the name I actually use for those ... well, I'll stop here, too) will likely have little to no interest as their agenda is elsewhere - but the smaller outfits might, as it would be the type of exposure that would do them quite a bit of good. P.S. - my notes to Judy are intended to be funny! Hard to tell intent in print; there's no emoji for tongue in cheek.

Hoping that everyone here on this board has a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving with friends and family. I am so very grateful for ALL of you on this board.

Or I could be completely suffering from pre-Thanksgiving distraction and not know which end is up.

Scholarships by the school itself. Scholarships by specialty donors or for specific purposes. Of course, none of those ever exceed tuition charged...

The implication of the 1099 is that this may be a *taxable* scholarship. The first thing to figure out, in connection with the business that issued it, is whether or not it is taxable. Once you do that, yes the best way to handle it would be C-EZ, back it out, and if taxable it ends up on Line 21. Another way would simply be to put it on Line 21 to start with. Then use Tuition & Fees to zero out the taxable income, or the non-refundable portion of AOC to zero out tax. Or pay the tax and let parents take the full refundable credit if they qualify (and repay kid for tax paid). This is a scenario where you really have to have both tax returns in front of you to figure the best overall results for the family as a whole. It would be foolishness to zero out a couple hundred bucks tax on the kid and have the parents lose $2,500 in credits.

CPAperless's "Signature Flow" e-signatures are also IRS-compliant (says so right on their home page for the product) and also hare per-signature charge rather than a (high!) flat fee annually.

Yes, you can move a registration to a new machine. Think about it: you bought the license to use the software. It's registered to you, not to the particular hardware. What if your machine got a virus and you had to start from scratch? You re-install all your old programs, and the license gets transferred to the new machine. In fact, you can usually install on multiple machines at once; the limits are (usually) on how many installations may run at once and frequently that number is one. So you can have the same license on your desktop at home, your desktop at work, and your laptop - as long as you use the program on one machine at a time. As for buying new software cheap - I do it all the time. Best way to buy Adobe Acrobat, or Quicken, or any of a number of other programs, is to go to eBay and find a NEW, REGISTERABLE copy (that bit is the key) of last year's version (or the year before, or the year before that). Example: Client needed QB, but also needed cheap. Told her to go to eBay and buy a two-year-old new copy of QB desktop; this year's version was hundreds of dollars, the two-year-old version was less than $100; she was thrilled. QB old versions - even brand-new - sell cheap because they stop support for payroll after three years, and sometimes the bank feeds won't work. Well, she doesn't have a payroll; not an issue for her - and some of the bank feeds won't work with brand-new versions, depending on the bank - but almost all have web connect download files available, so do those instead. Heck, I still have (on an older machine) and installation of QB2007 that I sometimes have to pull out for one client's file. It works, they do payroll through a service, why pay for a not-needed upgrade?

I don't do that, because more often than not the IRS sends its letter before they post the client's check payment. So the letter includes the amount of the already-sent-in-but-not-included check. I tell clients to check with me first. Just today I had someone who sent in a little extra, so they did not even owe the amount of penalties plus interest - just the difference between the letter amount and what they had sent in. Told them to pay that difference but include a copy of the cashed check.

If you already own Office Pro 2013 why not just install that on your new machine? I have two machines, one is still running Office 2003, the other one Office 2007. I see no reason to upgrade. In fact, I prefer the 2003 version as there are all kinds of templates etc available as part of the program that have to be obtained online-only (many with fees!) in 2007. I have no doubt that kind of more-money-for-less-utility nonsense has only increased with later versions.

I have never found these calculations to be better than somewhat accurate, and decided a year or two ago that it was better for my clients (ymmv) to warn them of a penalty/interest letter to come. When I was calculating (allowing the program) to calculate, invariably the clients would still get letters - for whatever small amount the calculations were off by; I believe the smallest amount I saw was less than $5 difference - the clients would immediately call ME, all upset (with me!) because they got "more" penalties. Even though of course they had been told the calculations are approximate, you will get a letter even if it's spot-on, showing the breakdown, etc etc etc. Rather than being tempted to be snarky to my clients, I now just tell them "I can't calculate these accurately; they'll figure them out and you'll get a letter." I still get the calls - but at least they're just "I got this letter, do I pay it?" calls rather than angry with me because they got what I told them to expect.

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Well of COURSE - but do people think of pesky things like that when faced with car insurance at $1,000 rather than $6,000? I mean, c'MON now!