chadlonetree

More than half of my clients are ministers or churches. For a small church, Aplos is the the best... Not even close. http://www.aplossoftware.com/

Jack, I thought I remember before you saying adding more memory will not help this. Am I correct in that recollection? My computer has 8GB memory and would gladly upgrade if it helped.

I would have charged $335 for 1040 and $800 for 1065.

The "can take up to 6 months" has been at least 6 months the last year in the Fresno, CA office. Other processing centers haven't been quite as slow...

70% of my business is ministers. This is very common in certain denominations. I have been through dozens of audits where this issue came up. While many call them tithes, they are essentially district dues or credential fees (depending on the organization and where they are paid). If you have the district or general bylaws of the organization that states it is required, you will not lose an audit by claiming this as SCH C expense. Be careful of Clergy tax guides. There are so many different denominations and structures, it can be as different as preparing a return for a farmer and a pastor when you are looking at two ministers from radically different denomination structures. Many of the guides are written as a "catch all" that generalizes structures like Methodist, Southern Baptist, Lutheran. Some structures are radically different and need to be examined.

It sounds like your shortcut link (what you double click) has lost the target. If you go into where your ATX program is installed (the folder) and click on it there does it open?

I ran netsetup as I do every year (made sure the process was same with the new 2012 version). However, the program on the workstation doesn't have any of the return data. It is almost as if it is a stand alone version (doesn't ask for log in when opening). Anyone else have this problem?

I had this problem. I unselected all of the forms to print, then manually selected them again and it printed. It was a workaround that worked for me. Too many workarounds necessary this year, but at least I got the results...

It's always funny. It is way easier to steal postal mail than email... That being said, I have clients use PDF suite or Adobe to encrypt with a password and then call me with it.

Anyone have any advice? Can't print anything with 10.8. All that it says is that there is an error. Not with 3 printers or the PDF. Updated to 10.9. Still can't print. Try and print to PDF and program crashed every time...???

Forgot to mention that It is probably better for me. I serve the same 300 clients every year with almost no turnover and know them all well.

This is my 5th year using it. Getting more popular every year. I require all my clients to pay in advance, or use fee collect (also accept credit cards). I charge $25 if they want to use fee collect. This covers the $15 and additional for the time it takes to process the fee collect paperwork. Most clients wouldn't care if I charged $50. It is almost as if they think my fees are coming out of their refund, it is like getting their taxes done for free. Silly, but that is kind of how it is.

Was excited I transmitted a 4562 return (majority of returns I do have them, so you can imagine the stack...). But now nothing will print!!! Not to PDF, printer, anyting...???

I filed 8 yesterday, all accepted. Next up... 4562...8582....

In the Transmission Pop Up box during efiling or receiving Acks. It only does it once for each return. It won't show up in an ACK history report.