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Ummm... what utility does one run to fix the "completed" checkbox issue? I just updated to 12.11 mainly because I was getting really tired of either sorting through returns or re-checking all the "completed" boxes. So I would love to run this utility except I don't know what utility it is. TIA, Catherine
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Restore didn't bring my assets back. Now to decide: re-enter them, delete return and re-rollover, or just do in Drake? Sigh.
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Program crashed while working in a return. When I re-opened, ALL my fixed assets were gone. Do I have to start over with a re-rolled return? Go back and add the missing assets from the 2011 data I have? Go straight to Drake; this one has bad ATX karma? Other suggestions? Catherine
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I had that happen, too. Reboot didn't help (program or entire machine). I re-created the return in Drake and did it from there. It's happened to several returns and Drake has now paid for itself on getting those DONE. All I can suggest is renaming the return (if you can), re-rolling over the 2011, and starting again. Or start again in a different software program. Or delete the munged return (if you can) and then roll over the 2011. I have also noticed that this tends to happen about three minutes before the return is ready to print to pdf. Although it happened to one of my returns during printing. The print manager seized up, the program crashed -- and when I re-opened the program I could no longer open that return. Talk about frustrating!!
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My younger girl, Gwen, turns 20 tomorrow (St. Patrick's Day indeed). Time does NOT fly -- it damned near evaporates on you!!
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NT - how to get collections to stop calling the wrong number?
Catherine replied to jklcpa's topic in General Chat
The easiest way to make them stop is to get a different number. If you don't want to do that, ask your phone provider about selective call blocking. This assumes you have the caller list with numbers that have been used... and you will have to have the phone company block each of those numbers and add new ones as they turn up. Really, if you are the only one with the number... why not just get a different one assigned? It's a pain, sure -- but less of a pain than constantly updating the "blocked caller" list. Yes, there should be a way to stop all these calls -- but there isn't. The person with the problems made up a number specifically so s/he would not get those calls, and it is working brilliantly as far as they are concerned. -
To Dump, or Not to Dump...That is the Question
Catherine replied to MsTabbyKats's topic in General Chat
Why are you even considering taking this guy back? Lying, verbally abusive, happy to commit tax fraud, self-righteous, financially irresponsible.... "I am not taking new clients, nor do I accept back former clients who left." -
Regardless of the right emergency number to call, it's a good warning. Just because the blue lights flash does not mean you are being pulled over by someone legitimate.
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Ok, you know how no one ever uses box 3 on 1099-Misc?
Catherine replied to joanmcq's topic in General Chat
I've seen Box 3 (as well as Box 6 and Box 7) used for payments by health insurance companies to therapists of various kinds. 6 & 7 seem to be the most common but there are a few who gravitate towards 3. I put the amounts on Sch C as that is where they belong. If it was a trustee fee, and the person was not in the business of being a trustee, then I'd look at Line 21. So far as I know, the IRS wants the $$ claimed somewhere - facts and circumstances determine where. -
I still have the download files for 12.10 if someone wants them and cannot find them on the official site. PM me. I shelled out for Drake and have had to use it on several returns where ATX just froze; would not even let me open one return (crash), would not let me print another return (crash), would not let me.... you know the drill. Just those several returns paid for Drake (which format I really do NOT like), kept my customers happy, and me sane. Or as sane as I ever get, anyway.
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He used to be 13; close enough!
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My baby girl turns twenty (TWENTY -- when on earth did THAT happen?!?!?!) on Sunday. She wants her birthday dinner on Friday so she has time to eat her leftovers before she goes back to school after spring break on Sunday afternoon. I ordered her cake today. And I have bronchitis and a fever and don't know if I'll even be able to go have a celebratory dinner with her. Wah. I am feeling more than a little overwhelmed and pouty right now. Whining mope over; thanks for being good sports and not heaving bricks at me through the computer!
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All school maps must now conjoin Idaho with Montana, as Idaho's shape is too similar to a gun's. Or at least to the shape the pop-tart was eaten into by the kid who was suspended.
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FIRST EVER. HAVE YOU EVER HAD THIS? HOW TO PROCEED??
Catherine replied to komtax's topic in General Chat
A client of mine, several years ago, received an unwarranted refund check in the mail. HE was able to fight the inevitable interest charge on the "overpayment" by presenting back to them their un-cashed check. If your client wishes to take her $7K and return the rest, I strongly recommend that she take a check IN PERSON to the nearest IRS office and get a signed & dated receipt from them. -
I had one bozo lady a couple years ago call the office on -CHRISTMAS DAY- while we were eating dinner. I closed the office door, but you could still hear the phone ringing and the answering machine taking a message. No, the client (FORMER client, now) was not Jewish or Hindu or any other faith, AND she knew the office was in my house (right next to the dining room). Good grief. No amount of money (that she didn't have anyway) can make up for that; she got fired. As I should have done long before except I was trying to hold off 'til after Christmas. Yikes; some people!
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Dear Client, Before I work on your 1120 with the incomplete documentation, I require payment of your 6-months-past-due bill -- as clearly stated in my engagement letter. Yes, that means you. No, I will not finish this return first. And for the second year in a row, when I say I need expenses, "AmEx $18K" is NOT an expense. It is a payment method. Sincerely yours,
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We went to the range to practice for an hour tonight. Very decadent.
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I have a couple of trusts I did in Drake and those claim they are e-file ready (I just don't have the trustee's signature yet). (For the most part I'm still plugging away with ATX as I still really prefer it, but I've had a couple returns in ATX that cannot be printed, e-filed, etc., without crashing the program and those I have replicated and e-filed from Drake. Hate the format but it gets things _done_ and off my "undone" list.)
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Ditto to what Lion said -- we love you here and appreciate you! Go hug your current wife and raise a glass/say a prayer for the one who has passed on to a better world.
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Over on the "other" forum, folks had a work-around of duplicating the 2011 return, deleting the un-wanted state _there_ then rolling over from that one and re-entering. Oy. Also an official ATX person said the next update should address this (note use of the conditional) and that there is no known workaround. (The following post was the other user who DID have a work-around. An annoying one, but a work-around. Once again the users are more facile than the techies.)
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I did post it in the other forum and last time I checked (before dinner!) no one had responded. Don't recall if anyone had even read it. Thanks for letting me know I should tell them, though. I thought they were monitoring over here, too, and so would not have thought to _report_ over there -- I was just looking for help.
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Again, maybe. I do know someone who set up a corporation and definitely had a profit motive -- and no stomach/aptitude/courage for chasing multiple leads. He would generate interest from some company, give them a dog-and-pony show on how wonderful it would be for them to hire him and his company... and wait by the phone for six months for them to call before giving up hope and slowly searching for a new lead. His business didn't get very far very fast -- but last I heard he was still _in_ business and over the years (two decades, now, roughly?) he has had some good contracts come out of it. Still, for much of the first years, he sat by the phone waiting for it to ring. And spending money on equipping the business for the big contract that was going to send him to fat city. LOL.
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Will try the letter. Tried the cover sheet and that crashed the program.
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Client moved in 2011 so we needed a part-year return for the old state (Mass). Don't need it for 2012; no Mass-source income, no residency. Every time I try to delete the main form, it first warns me that it is part of a set (form, letter, cover); do I still want to delete? Answering "yes" crashes program. Anyone have a clue how I can delete this not-needed state form set? Catherine