Denne

Thanks again Cathy! I did the entry as you suggested and got the darn thing sent..... Thanks for taking so much time to do your own test returns and helping me. I am very grateful and my client will be too when he finds out the returns is on the way ;~) I guess that will be a good ending to his cruise. He had a nice week to get away from here. I am in Michigan and we have had lots of....too much of....cold and snow! Thanks so much......Connie

I am trying to create an efile and have a problem with the Zip Code area. I get an error that the Employer zip code on the W-2 is wrong. Well....it isn't according to the taxpayer and the employer. I also looked it up on the Internet and found the same zip code. I tried to just leave the zip code off and then get an error message that eo efile the zip code has to be on the form..... By the way we used the same zip code and efiled last year. Going around in circles here!

I checked for all the correct Versions for the forms you mentioned, Cathy. All were correct. I tried to "Create the efile" again and this time got a different error. Now is says "SCH SE (1040) Error Adjustment to Line 2 Business Income Excluding this return from electronic filing. Paper file this return." The taxpayer has Gross Income of $108,000.00 and then the Partnership Income of about $6700.00. Of course he has the maximum $97,500.00 already withheld from his pay. The only thing he has to actually pay the SE tax on is the Medicare portion. Is there a way around this error, so he can still efile? Thanks for all your help!!!

I have had the same thing come up today. My client is actually paying the house payment for her deceased mother....since she lives in the home. Her mother had much credit card debt and no assets other than the house to pay things off. The daughter got two 1099 C forms in the mail last week and they are for 2007 even though her mother passed on in 2005.... I feel the mother was and is insolvent.... I have been trying to research how to handle the same thing you are. I will post again if I find something that spells it out clearly. Let us know if you find out something too.

I used the K-1 Input (1065) worksheet..... Do you think that has something to do with it? Perhaps the K-1 worksheet is not working properly.

I have tried to remove items from various lines of the return and recreate that line. This client over withheld by quite a bit and then paid estimated taxes on the Partnership income. The Partnership is only showing a $230 Section 179 deduction, but that seems to be where the problem is. Any solutions to getting his $12,000 refund by efile? Thanks for your help and suggestions! Getting close to this client coming back from a business trip and I wanted the refund on it's way by now and I know he does too!

I am in the same boat! This is totally frustrating..... I have tried to re-set the password and still can't get in. I am trying to find out when various forms are due to be released. I still don't have many of the local tax returns and have so many people on hold. I guess this their way of not having to deal with us. Lock us out and don't answer the phone, fax or email either, huh? What a total lack of customer service this year. And now I see we are supposed to CHANGE the pass word every 45 days?! Like I have time for this kind of frustration..... No wonder it is 2:30 in the morning and I am still working ;~(

What is really upsetting the client is that his profits on this little Partnership were only $6781 for the year and of all things the Sec 179 adjustment is only for $230.... Still wondering if there is something I can do to get this efiled..... I don't remember not being able to efile last year because of a 179.

I just tried to create an efile for a client that has a K-1 form with a Section 179 item. I got an error message that the return could not be efiled due to the adjustment.... Is there a way around this? Sort of stuck and the refund of $12,290 on the Federal return.....of course the client wants to efile!! Any suggestions are appreciated..... Thanks!

I have unplugged the phone that controls the cordless phones. I have also unplugged the fax machine from the power line and also from the phone line. Not sure if I should leave them unplugged for more than a few seconds. I watied about 10 on the phone line. It is on a stretch cord so I had to stand and hold it....got anxious to get it plugged back in before I lost the end ;~) I will check on the battery issue next. Any other suggestions? I can't get a real person on the line at AT & T. Just all recordings and one suggestion to go outside and take the cover off the bos and plug a phone directly into it. Gosh....I don't know if it is my phone or the phone line. The call to the phone company did result in a test and the test said there may be trouble with the line. Seems odd to be working one minute however and off the next. Thanks for any more suggestions!

The last phone call I had was a fax. Since then I don't seem to be able to use my phone line and no calls coming in either. I have checked all phones and none of them are on....or off the hook. I have turned off the fax machine and then re-started it again. Still just static on the phone and shows that an extension is in use. I have DSL so I don't believe my phone line is really down. Any other ideas?? Thanks!

15 Minutes or more. I finally "Canceled" and started over. I thought I was stalled! Still didn't get the forms I needed.....Grrrrr!

I will give that a try.....thanks!

I am trying to print off W-2 forms and finding that my Alternate Feed tray is just not being recognized.....or at least the W-2's I have in that tray are not being picked up. I have been working with the printer for quite some time and not had any trouble with this issue. I haven't changed anything that I know of. It is a HP 4100 LaserJet and a nice printer, although getting old now. It is just so heavy duty that I don't want to give it up just yet. Sure is a pain to have to keep changing the paper in the paper tray instead of just adding what I need in the AFT. Any suggestions as to how to correct this problem? Thanks!!

I have had this issue come up twice in the last few weeks. Both are employees of the same company. The one that called today has around a half million in his 401K account. He was advised by another employee that she is moving her 401K into a corporation....which is a business she just bought. She will use the money from her 401K instead of withdrawing it and paying tax and penalty on it. She will also be drawing a salary from the corporation....actually from her 401K. He said he looked a little further into it and now wants to do this. He said it should be something that I can set up for him....not really interested in that. I just don't want to do something, as the accountant and tax preparer, that isn't correct. He also asked me....of course I don't have the answer.....if he could form an LLC and still do the same thing and draw a salary too, if he makes it a partnership. Has anyone else had any experience with the sort of thing? Makes me a little nervous....sounds like a scam of some sort to me. What if the new company doesn't make it? When does the income from the original 401K get reported? Somehting just sounds wrong with this situation to me Thanks for your assistance!

I am wondering about the same thing. I hope someone will post that has the answer for us.....

I think this is a wonderful idea and I would really like to be involved. I am tired of the big guys buying everyone out and we end up with the products they choose to produce with no real control of anything. I feel it is a real possibility that we can do this together. Who knows where it will go..... Bill Gates probably had no idea what he was starting at first either....but look with Microsoft has become! Let's go for it.......

I had a call from a client today and she just got hers. My husband has not received his as of yet.... They are apparently just starting to send them out.