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be aware that the latest hardware will let you install 7 or 8 but then you won't be able to update. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-an-issue-in-which-you-receive-a-your-pc-uses-a-processor-tha

You have to wait until the test is met, so file in October.

I did two of these for 2015 and had to file special extension form 2350 because to use bona fide resident test, it has to be one full calendar year (not just 12 consecutive months). So the test period for you is 1/1/17-12/31/17, and you extend it until 1/31/18. With efile starting 1/20/16, it only gave me an 11 day window to efile the 2015 return. Now, if you can use the physical presence test, you can meet that at an earlier date.

Ctrl+P is your friend. I never look for little printer icons in any program. They're all different and in different places, but good ole Ctrl+p works every time! And, no, you can't customize the ATX tool bar/ribbon thingy or whatever the */%& they call it these days.

I think 'disregarded' means it doesn't matter from a tax standpoint. I would just treat it as his Sch C... and advise him to draft a memo transferring it to his name, unless being female owned is a benefit to his business.

We've always taken losses on houses in estates. Usually, just for the amount of the expenses of sale, because if it sells within a year or so, the best proof of value is the sales price, assuming arms-length deal.

Had a brainstorm and made better use of the checkboxes for question 19 about what to do with a refund.

Some people never figure life out.

My favorite picture of Rita at work.

Just thinking out load: If you don't allocate and you have passive loss carryovers, each property would not have the correct losses associated with it, which would be a problem on disposal.

I wonder how many of these people are properly licensed to lease vehicles and are charging all the appropriate lease taxes for their state.

And while you're getting your dew-soaked newspaper off your lawn each day you can yell at the kids to get off your lawn.

I encourage my clients to not take a paper copy. Viewing on a screen is in many ways superior to reading on paper.

I've had clients come to me complaining about how thick their tax return folder was from their former preparer. I rarely print more than 15 pages of a tax return. They get a PDF with with all the pages that they'll never look at or understand.

Yikes! https://www.tax.virginia.gov/laws-rules-decisions/rulings-tax-commissioner/14-73 Of course, none of my gamblers ever have net winnings.

Post a suggestion in the Enhancements forum. I've probably posted it before because my old tax software automated the 8615. https://community.atxinc.com/forums/74/ShowForum.aspx

I remember the the first two digits of 7 digit phone numbers have words like Ludlow. I imagine when it went from 5 numbers to 7, this helped some remember the longer number? But we always had 7 digits numbers (Ft. Lauderdale, FL). It wasn't that long ago when we went to 10 digit dialing for local numbers. I called it 17 digit dialing because I often called the 7 digit number, got the error message then dialed the 10 digit number. I don't often dial numbers these days. Never on cell, and on the office phones I can call back any number on the caller ID.

You're either older than me or you lived in the boonies, because I never had to do any of that. But I saw them do it on Green Acres and The Andy Griffith show!

We could scan them and deposit them electronically, and we may someday, but for now, we actually do just deposit them... on an electronically created deposit slip.

I email a copy of the return for their review, if I'm emailing 8879. If they're picking up their return, they look it over in the lobby or tell us to hold off transmitting until they get home to review it, but they usually sign the 8879 while they're here.

Yeah, but I'm also old enough to almost forget. I stopped keeping a checkbook back in the 90s and the closest I have to it now is a QuickBooks check register. I realized that if I didn't keep a checkbook then I didn't have to reconcile it every month. Cross it off the list!

I nominate this reply from jklcpa for the Answer of the Year Award. Bravo!

I've changed my mind. Whipping is too good for this person. They're dumb as a box of rocks.

You're not the first one to report this happening but it happens so rarely that it's a mystery for now.