HV Ken

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My understanding is that it is the IRS does not allow this.

Mine has been calculating the $330 just fine. I'd love to see a screen shot of one where it is not working properly. Is this because of the decoupling from the IRS calculations? NY only gives $100 when there is no earned income on the NY return.

NY IT-215 Earned Income Credit I have my first return with EIC. The NY form is not calculating. The Federal EIC amount is not feeding to line 10 of the IT-215. This is a HOH client with just a W-2 and 2 dependents. Anyone else having this problem with the IT-215? Am I missing something?

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No IRS account required. Simply go to https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript. Can receive it in the mail within 5 to 10 calendar days by filing in 4 fields.

No account needed! Go to https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript and if the client can't get it online, it can be mailed and received within 5 to 10 calendar days. We utilized this approach during this current tax season for anyone who couldn't absolutely prove their amounts via other means (not merely relying on their memory) and as a result had ZERO math error notices once we adopted it. You can also request a transcript by mail by calling the automated phone transcript service at 800-908-9946. We also offer a transcript monitoring service as an add-on. For clients on this service we were easily able to get their information.

If you mean Ken (not Kev), no I am not kidding. The EIP3 information is already on the 2021 transcript (just as EIP1 and EIP2 were on the 2020 transcript as the start of last tax season), and I believe the ACTC is as well. It's easy peasy to obtain and will eliminate all the math errors and delays. I honestly can't understand why any taxpreparer won't require this. Sadly, the taxpreparer industry contributed greatly to the delays the taxpreparer industry suffered due to IRS manual processing caused by invalid amounts claimed for the RRC. We can do better and be better citizens to ourselves.

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I decided to call ATX about this, and found out that this was sent by an internal salesperson and was NOT a company-wide marketing email.

Based on client's inability to accurately provide correct stimulus amounts during this past tax season, we started requiring, and will continue to require, every client to provide an IRS transcript as another piece of data for tax prep, just like a W-2.

UPDATE: I decided to call ATX about this, and found out that this was sent by an internal salesperson and was NOT a company-wide marketing email.

I assume all ATX users received this email? This has nothing to do with ATX, but is an offer to get us to move to "CCH Axcess™ Tax"

Those are alternative facts!

Where did you get that date from? Haven't seen that announcement anywhere. The IRS date is 11/20 and ATX typically backs up 5 days from that. 11/11 seems excessive.

Community property state? This is precisely how it is being handled in this case!

According to: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/credits/eitc.htm they are honoring using 2019 for the calculation.

Thanks for the details TaxCPANY. Perhaps these are returns that were filed and completed before updates were rolled out to the forms. I am going to take a closer look based on the additional information you shared.

Not yet - wanted to alert people right away. Going to open a trouble ticket when the work day is done.

Nope - that is for the NY AGI on the IT-201. This is specific to the EIC calculation. ATX is passing the Federal EIC as calculated on the lower AGI and needs to do the calculation on the non-reduced (higher) AGI and pass that amount.

Client came by today with a notice from NY, claiming the EIC calculation was wrong. This has to do with the 10,200 unemployment exclusion. NY IT-215 line 10 is the Federal EIC amount, or RECOMPUTED EIC amount. This amount needs to be REcalculated having the $10,200 added back in to the Federal EIC calculation. There is really not an easy way to do this in ATX, since the value simply flows from the Federal form. I'm surprised the software is not calculating this correctly. Just a heads-up for anyone else who has a NY return with EIC and unemployment calculation - the software is (currently) not calculating this correctly.

According to the instructions: To make this election (to use prior year earned income), enter “PYEI” and the amount of your 2019 earned income in the space next to Form 1040, line 28. I know how to do this for EIC, but can't see how to do this for the ACTC. What is the incantation I need to perform this magic?

If your software??? Isn't this an ATX board???

The complete box in the return manager.

My kids had no problem setting up parent logins so we could pay the bill.