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The program has a planner that you can use to estimate next year's taxes. Once you are finished with 2022, open the planner and select 2023 and the program will replicate all the entries from the 2022 tax year into 2023 with inflation adjusted items at the correct amounts such as the standard deduction, etc. It will also calculate whatever state is in 2022 and you can make any changes in 2023 that you want to. You can have more than one planner for 2023 and even print a comparison. Once you've made all the changes you want in 2023, do make sure to "calculate" so that your changes are incorporated into the planner's figures. You can then easily use that tax minus any withholding to come up with the quarterly amounts the client needs to pay in.

No, Tom. IRS tax topic 756 explains it well. Here's the link, or search for that topic # https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc756

I know it is.

Enter as wages so it's subject to regular tax but not s.e.tax. Also, as an employee, Sch C would not be appropriate where this person would end up paying both shares of the fica and medicare.

Using one of the practice returns, I was able to create vouchers for both states in one return. Those vouchers for both states did appear on the print screen The things I had to do: Install each of those states Make sure that one of those states was indicated as the resident state on screen 1. In my test case, I used OK as the resident state. Make sure that the other state had some sort of input by going to the State Tab, selecting the Kansas (the nonres or PY return) input for General Information, and I simply entered a "T" for taxpayer in the top box, and OK in the PY resident state box. Go to the ES input screen and in the lower right quarter of the screen, enter one of the state abbreviations, the "IN" to indicate the estimate is for individual tax, enter the amount for each of the vouchers, THEN Page down to a 2nd ES screen and repeat the above input for the second state entering all of that similar data. Calculate or go to Print/View where I was able to see +/or print all 4 vouchers for each of the two states.

@Terry D EA, I got the same thing because it is using the mid-quarter convention for the 4th quarter. It's falling into that MQ convention because the program thinks more than 40% of assets placed in service during the year occurred in the 4th quarter of the tax year. Either that is the case and the calculation is correct, or not correct if you haven't entered other assets yet that remove that mid-quarter convention. $38933 / 15 * 1.5 * 1.5 months of 12 = 486.66.

Your math is correct, if that is what you want to accomplish. Instead of using "DB" as the method, which is for pre-1981 assets, try the code "ALT" that should calculate for alternative MACRS 150%DB.

Yes, Delaware is calling ours a tax rebate refund, and was paid to anyone that filed a 2020 resident tax return regardless whether or not they continued to live in the state in 2022. I am inclined to treat it like any other state tax refund, if they itemized for 2020, using the tax benefit rule.

Do you sometimes log in as preparer and other times as administrator, and do those both have the same access to all returns? I'm a one-person shop so I always log in as admin but have to use the preparer name if I want to use the scheduler.

I feel your pain! I went back at a liquidated partnership multiple times before I had everything entered correctly within the program to be reported properly on the business and personal returns. Each time I looked at it I saw something that needed to be fixed.

Did you mark it as "complete" and have the completed returns hidden? I do that so that I don't see the entire list all the time, only the returns that are in and not yet completed.

From client manager, open the return. On the main screen that appears you will see a blank box in the lower left corner that says "enter screen, state, or search phrase". That is what Catherine is referring to as the quick-fill-navigate box where she wants you to type in "LATE". That "LATE" input screen can also be found and accessed on the "Taxes" tab and is the 5th item down from top left.

Yes, I saw the difference in the numbered codes, but the issue really seems to be the same thing with the withholding exceeding the total income. I think the only difference in the error codes is that the line numbers on the 1040 have changed since the "05" error was in use and was the reason I mentioned adding the $1.

This was happening in earlier years also, and when I googled the error code I saw referenced back to 2019 and 2020 too. The issue is that the withholding exceeds total income unless one of the other items you listed is true, otherwise the return must be paper filed. One solution is to add $1 of cap gain or cap gain div, or one of the other items required to be true, to remove that error and be able to e-file.

In addition to screen resolution, there is also the "Scaling and Layout" within the display settings that can be changed, but that can cause issues within apps that may include programs like ATX.

I thought about this briefly until I realized that it's been more than 2 yrs since I used the FIRE system directly and my TCC has most likely been inactivated by IRS.

I've worked on individual and business returns within the program but am waiting on state forms approval, so I haven't e-filed anything yet. No problems with what I've done so far, but I did not initiate the MFA during my initial setup after reading the initial post here. My own 940 was rejected by IRS on 1/23 because of a programming issue in Drake Accounting and with the year in the header, and the program didn't catch or reject it and allowed it to transmit on through to IRS. The patch was made by Drake the following morning and 940 was resubmitted automatically without any further action on my part. All I had to do was retrieve the ack a second time that showed its acceptance.

The password does expire every 90 days, but if you log in once a year to submit W-2s, then you can change it only that once and done. I logged in this evening, changed my password, prepared and submitted my W-2, and saved/printed the pdf. No problems whatsoever, and I used Firefox browser.

Thank you. I'll take some time tomorrow to read the links and examples more closely.

I think the employer contribution is still limited to the 25% but the employee elective deferral can be up to 100% of the plan doc's comp as long as the total combined contribution max doesn't exceed the $61,000. https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/one-participant-401k-plans

Employer contributing more than 25% of the defined compensation per plan document would result in a nondeductible excess contribution, and the employer would be subject to the excise tax if not remedied.

If boot is taken, then client has a partially deferred gain, and the boot is taxable up to the amount of gain. No proration of basis is involved.

This is a reminder that we do NOT host political discussions on this forum, and with new leadership in the U.S. House, I expect that some members will be tempted to post about proposed new legislation on here. Already this morning, I've deleted two posts and modified a third to eliminate a political reference in a very minor way that does not affect its content. I'm asking that each of you to please be cognizant of content before posting to keep this a politics-free site. This would be especially true of any legislation floated out that we all know has no chance of becoming law short of h*ll freezing over. Thank you.

Wow, four hours to bake! The baker would need some of those calories back after all that prep and mixing.

Thanks, Dan! I've used RIA and PPC products for years but never for CPE and just made the switch to Checkpoint today. This was perfect timing because my now-former package had just renewed on the 31st and was still eligible for a full refund, and that company's state ethics course was NOT included.