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I upgraded. So far so good. I really wish they would give us more info about what they changed so we could check to see if it works.

I gave up after not finding it in the Sch C instructions. Who knew they'd bury in chapter 6 of some damn publication?

Anyone install it yet?

May be FBAR filing requirements, too. I have an Irish pension and Greek Social Security and I've just been putting them on line 21 for US citizens living in US.

Thanks! I searched for that yesterday but couldn't find it.

I don't think it really matters, but as a landscaping business is mostly a service business, I would tend not to use cost of goods sold at all, unless they have inventory.

You don't duplicate it, you do a rollover. When you click on the rollover tab, you have two tabs: 2013 and last Month/Quarter. Choose Last Month/Quarter. Then choose the return you want to do a short year on. This will make your beginning depreciation and other rolled over numbers correct. As for efiling it, it sounds like you have to call ATX to get them to allow it. I've always just paper filed.

MDEA is right. The EFIN should be in the firm's name. http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/e-File-Providers-&-Partners/FAQs-About-Electronic-Filing-ID-Numbers-(EFIN)

"ATX appeared for a second year to have largely recovered from its technically troubled 2013 season. It continued to regain market share, and users gave it an overall satisfaction rating near the average for all major products. Notably, nearly 90% of its users would recommend it for a new tax practice, second only to Drake in that regard " http://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2015/aug/2015-tax-software-survey.html

You never got down and back up again. woot-woot!

How is dancing two-dimensional?

Just hide the update in Windows Update by right-clicking it and choosing hide update. Saw a thread on this in an IT forum I follow and the poor IT guy had employees getting popups everyday reminding them to install the update. His fellow IT guys were telling him to do registry edits and group policy edits and all kinds of techie things. I suggested he just hide the updates, like I did. Sometimes techies can't see the forest for the trees. I guess a lot of people have never hidden an update and might not even know it can be done.

Are you sure it's an NSF penalty and not a late payment penalty? Seems awfully high.

We're hoping the law will be changed by year end. A lot of business groups are pressuring congress to permanently fix this like they did for 2014.

Have you noticed that every Monday, the ATX Servers are not automatically running when you start your computer? If you leave your computers running 24/7 then you probably won't notice this, but our computers shutdown automatically every night (Scheduled Task). I first noticed it when one of my staff wanted to access ATX before I had run it on my computer (workstation/server), and they could not get in. And when I start ATX on Monday, the window pops up and shows the servers starting. I had asked ATX if I had 10 years of programs on my computer would I have all 10 servers auto-start all the time, but ATX did not understand my question. I'm pleased to learn that the answer is no. It will just start the current and prior year server services.

It's quite normal. Windows is just asking your permission to let ATX run.

I updated my 6 yr old cracked screen win7 home laptop to win10 with almost no glitches. It froze the first time it ran but after I powered down, it came back up just fine. I know you all love 7 but I'm so glad to be done with it.

I don't even like all of my clients, much less want to be friends with them!

I changed my cellphone number and none of my clients has it unless they are also a friend.

Yeah, I would add artists to that list. Especially the ones that refuse to use computers.

I recently discovered that my clients don't understand cash basis and are giving me amounts paid before or after the year because "it was for that year", and, conversely, not giving me amounts paid during the year because it was for another year. I'll have to work that into my organizer letter next year.

I hear what you're saying, Sara, but I've seen a upswing in IRS audits the past few years. They're all correspondence audits over either Sch C or Sch A. I'm currently awaiting resolution of two audits. Prior to the past few years, I only had two audits over a twenty year period.

We have that exact situation and we add the allowance to box 1 of the W2. Plus we also add the gas reimbursements to box 1 of the W2 because we do not know if it is more or less than the standard mileage amount because the employees are not accounting for mileage to the employer. This leaves the employee to report their mileage on the 2106 and subtract the amount of reimbursements the employer paid for gas and allowance. http://www.irs.gov/instructions/i2106/ch02.html#d0e429 We've tried for years to get them to just report their mileage and get reimbursed a set amount per mile, but we can't get them to switch, even though we tell them it would save both the employer and the employees taxes. Their reason: this is the way it's always been done.

Thanks! That's all very good to know.

Don't agree with 100% of what this guy saysbut I thought it might be useful to the Win7 users here.