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Customize the Master Form to check the box you want. I don't check the box for the spouse because half of my clients are not married. From return manager, open the Forms menu. Edit: And it's not 8879, it's the EF Info form. I customize several things on several tabs in that form. Edit 2: Although it looks like you could customize the 8879, if you wanted to.

It's none of the other partner's business.

Looks like it only works with webmail or Outlook. I don't use either of those.

When you're in a return, there's a big green round icon that says Tax Research that takes you to Intelliconnect. You should also have a browser plugin, but if you upgrade to Firefox 44, it will no longer work. It actually is disabled in earlier versions of Firefox, but you cam go to about:config and search for signatures.required and set it to false.

We don't give out our actual fax #. I we don't answer either line, the call gets forwarded to MaxEmail and you can leave a message or send a fax. If both lines are busy you can still send us a fax.

They should have just issued new stock for the new shareholder. Then the existing shareholders wouldn't have a taxable event, plus it's cleaner and easier to do it that way. If indeed the shareholders sold the stock they held, their basis is whatever it is on their stock basis worksheets. That has to be tracked every year. If it hasn't been tracked, you need to reconstruct it from the beginning. The new shareholder has outside basis only, because they did not pay any money into the S corp.

That looks really good, if you just need a fax service. It's more money if you need both fax and voice message service.

The thing about electronic faxes is you learn to hate clients who fax things so they show up on your screen upside down! Fortunately, my new pdf software (Nuance Power PDF Standard) allows me to rotate all the pages of the pdf at once.

We've never had a local number. Calls are forwarded to our assigned fax number, so it does cost me a few cents of long distance for each fax, but I only pay $70/yr for the Lite Non-local service. But I think I'm grandfathered in because, the new lowest cost plan is $7/mo, if you pay annually. I get 500 pages per mo, that rollover and I've accumulated over 35,000 pages. We get our voice messages thru them too, but they don't mention that on their site. We also get 1 year storage on our faxes and messages.

Their sites says $25/mo/user. That would cost me at least $1,500/yr! It looks nice though.

We never rarely print our faxes.

Yeah, we're finally starting to not get raped on our cellphone bills. Personally, I credit the providers offering more sane plans now, including Google Fi. Verizon revamped their plans several months after Google Fi went live.

This is why I use a fax service and get my faxes as PDFs. I can delete, rotate, rearrange and save just what I need. We use MaxEmail, in case you're interested.

Saw that yesterday. Seems like they're still down. Not getting any Acks.

I didn't know you could create your own variables. I'm guessing that is not a feature yet.

Ha ha! Just trying to help ordinary folks understand taxes better, and calming their IRS fears. All of the mods are EAs or CPAs. One guy is a tax lawyer. One helpful fellow who answers questions is an IRS agent. I've learned a lot moderating that site. Sometimes, really good questions are asked.

Yeah, but then you need a color printer!

I use variables all the time. You just drag them from the list on the right and drop them where you want them in the letter.

If some part of the organizing was related to tax record keeping, that portion might be a 2% misc itemized deduction, which probably won't save any taxes anyway.

The invitations come within a few days now. I paid a $100 early termination fee because I would save $50/month, so it was cheaper to switch. I was already with a reseller using the Sprint network, so my coverage improved by adding a second carrier. Plus I can now use my cellphone at home. Never had much carrier signal at home. Even Verizon was spotty.

I'm gonna leave that typo.

We've been effing for at least a week with no issues.

Project Fi is a Google cellphone service that's very reasonable if you don't use too much cellphone data. It's $20/mo for unlimited calls & texts, plus $10/GB of cellphone data. The data plan is also prorated so if you use less than 1GB you get a credit. If you use more than 1GB, you pay for what you use. So, 1.1 GB would cost you $11. Google Fi uses wifi connections for calls and texts if you're connected to wifi, which I am at home and work. So you don't have to worry about a poor cellphone connection. When you are not on wifi, it chooses between Sprint and T-mobile. Also, international plans are included at reasonable rates. I've been to Canada twice and used my phone for a week for only about $7 extra. Nexus 6 is a Motorola cellphone.

Yes I was an early adopter of Project Fi, July 2015. And I have the Nexus 6, which I love.

Don't lie to the tax alien! He can read your thoughts!