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I have a PC and a laptop, both have ATX 2011 on it, on my PC I am able to see the 2012 organizer, but on my laptop I cannot see find, it only shows 2011 organizer? I did a manual update on the laptop, restarted it and no luck. They are not network, I use the laptop to enter client info when on the field, then import to the PC, but I want to use my laptop to start printing organizer.

https://support.atxinc.com/help/userguide/2011%20ATX%20Accounting%20Import%20Tutorial.pdf

Lol I have an understanding that the IRS has a tight handling of people using the Internet for personal use, from what I heard they don't have Internet access like you and I have and barely use email??? Has anyone heard different? Jack you are a nice person, don't pay attention.

And I bet most people could not find the Any Key http://youtu.be/gugbMw4LigY

Thanks to both, just one more question, how should the church be reporting the housing allowance at the end of the year 1099?

I am trying to reconcile 941's for a church/school against wages reported on the P&L, I am coming up with a difference that seems to be coming up from housing allowance, should the housing allowance be reported on as a separate expense "Housing Allowance", because I don't see it reflected as taxable or exempt wages on the 941's? Thanks MAS

"By the way, you might ask the church what exactly they need, because SSN is a perfectly good tax ID number for the W-9.. " Here is the scope, TP is using a assumed name and using her SS#, the church recieved a "no-match" letter informing them the assumed name and SS# don't match, since the church has been paying under the assumed name, now the church wants a W-9 with the assumed name and a FEIN. I know the church can just issue the 1099 under her name and SS# and this will solve everything, but the church simply wants to cover themselves.

Just wondering if this would cause a mess with self-employment tax? I've been doing TP return for about 3 years, she is self-employed, one of the church she does work for requested for her to get FEIN if she wants to continue working with them, as a result of notice the IRS sent the church. TP called to let me know she had applied for a FEIN about 20+ years ago, I called the IRS and they found no record of a FEIN issued to her. It turns out the FEIN was issued under the husband name, now here is the issue, if the FEIN is tied to the husband SS#, but the wife is the one who runs the business, how can I report SE income/expenses under the wife SS# when the 1099 will be issued to the husband? Would it be best just to apply for a new FEIN under the wife SS# and avoid all this mess?

Here is a presentation from the 2012 IRS Nationwide Tax Forum, good information to review for the 2013 season Don't forget to check out these videos http://www.eitc.irs.gov/rptoolkit/ddvideos/ 20 - Meeting Your EITC Due Diligence (embedded video) - REV 1.pdf

If someone is able to get the discount, let me know how you did it. MAS

Hope everyone on the east coast are doing okay.

PEMDAS This stands for Parenthesis (are none), Exponents (are none), Multiplication (yes), Division (none), Addition, and Subtraction (yes)

KC, no problem I totally understand your reasonings and apologies to you, that is the last thing I would like to do "bring hurt" after what you have gone through. Sincerely, Marco

"I agree with you Tom.. I know that there are bad preparers out there that need to be controlled but this is exactly what I expected would be the result of giving the IRS total control over who can prepare returns. It would have made so much more sense for them to just crack down on the bad actors, but they could not resist an excuse to take control of ALL preparers. Then, because that is a huge number of people, they use automated systems to administer the rules. So you get stupid situations such as yours, where the 'automated' system is mis-programmed, but there is no recourse except to live with it. " "OK, here is my crazy idea. I am actually thinking about approaching my congressman with this idea, but I will pass it to you guys to rip apart first. The OPR should become an independent body within the department of Treasury (modeled after the Taxpayer Advocate system) in which there is an independent body who sets the rules for practice before the IRS in all matters of taxation. The Secretary would not have authority over this body. The OPR would set compentency, ethical and licensing requirements for BOTH practictioners and IRS employees (auditors and revenue officers). It would resolve practice disputes between the IRS and the preparer community. It would handle discipline of BOTH practitioners and IRS employees. Why do we need this? Because the Secretary has too much authority over the practitioner community. In our adversarial relationship with the government, it makes no sense to allow one side to be able to force the other out of business with administrative authority with no due process to an independent arbitrator. Imagine if the district attorney Lawyers in this country could have the authority over the Defence attorneys to license and administer the rules of their practice? But that is what the Secretary has over us. He can pull our PTIN with any reason (see my post above re: my wife's PTIN renewal). There is a mechanism where the auditors can complain about bad practitioners, but not one for practioners to complain about bad IRS employees. So, what do you think. Would you prefer an independent body in Treasury that controlls the practice on both sides, or the system we have now? Fire away - I am a big boy, I can take it. Tom Hollister, CA " Have you seen this post? How many people have been sanction from the OPR, you will be surprised

How do I contact the admin?

Why was it removed? Or where is it?

Using Order of Operation gives you 20, I also seen this on facebook, and I will say a high number of people have responded with 320

LOL I am actually inside my doctor office waiting to see her for my prescription, in all honestly this year has been a stressful for me and now I see my doctor more often now .

Ahh chucks, the government can even make more money making the dancers more accountable, force them to claim 100% of tips and pay taxes, I bet many of them won't be able to afford going to college, having a nice condo, driving a fancy car after paying taxes. But on another note, medical researchers have found out getting a lap dance reduces stress :)

Received an email from the IRS reminding me about renewing my PTIN, there is a question to see if you have met the 15hr of CPE, prorated for anyone passing the RTRP exam after 01/31/12, and towards the end of the application you get message refering to Cir. 230 and letting you know if need hours still. Anyone else renewed?

Closed without sanction and lack of jurisdiction

Does anyone here remember something called AOL?

Yes, but just imagine you are using Lotus123 from back in the day, someone here on the forum should give it a try and let other know how it works. My experience with Calc was terrible, I couldn't perform a sum, sort, add a decimal point and I am talking about simple stuff, so the next time I visited my client I took my laptop and used excel. Client eventually bought office.

Say good bye to the easiness of using excel, you are going to find it very difficult to sum up totals, create columns, etc.... almost made me want to cry when I couldn't perform those simple tasks.

Tom, you might of pickup the last copies, checked out the website today and it only shows the download version.