Randall

I agree with Jack.

Form 8878 is for efiling approval of indidividual extension requests (4868). Is there an equivalent for s corps to use for 7004? There's 8879-S for the actual return. I looked for 8878-S in the corp forms and 8878 is for electronic funds withdrawal.

I only do a few. I've not had that problem so far.

Abby, any word back from ATX on this fix?

I'll just use 1040. I never used 1040A or 1040-EZ.

Thanks for the heads up. Just worked on a return with 20k short term cap gains. Without line 6, none of SocSec taxable. But with line 6 included, yes. I was able to override the amount in the ATX worksheet. I went back to 2018 ATX and entered info in the planner and got the correct result.

I've told clients to keep blank W9s in their truck. Get it as soon as a new person wants work. Tell them no W9, no work. But still clients don't do it. I don't know why. Over and over again.

On Sch C Data tab, there are boxes to check for QBI.

I'm just a one person office. I use a Win10 computer for my work. I have my previous Win8 computer in my office. I don't connect it to the internet anymore. I have the previous computer to that a Win7 at home. I don't connect that to the internet either. I do have a laptop. I bought it when Win8 came out. I upgraded it to Win10. A lot of funny things happened. I won't go into them and I don't have the techie expertise to describe them. Luckily I don't use the laptop for work, just connecting to the internet at home. Many here are more tech knowledgeable than me. For me and my experience, I will not upgrade the OS. I'll buy a new computer with the latest OS.

I can't find in ATX where to do that.

When I go to print client mailing labels, the format is 3 columns. Is there a way to set it for only 2 columns?

I don't want to look. They all probably make more than me.

Total Tax cost me $2400. I'm sure off hand what Total Tax has more than Max and less than Advantage.

Grubbing for berries and dodging bullets.

I've used Bitlocker with my last two computers (Win8 and Win10). But I too like the Symantec (old PGP) shredder function. So I still have the Symantec on my new computer but I don't use if for encryption, just the Bitlocker. Does anyone know if Bitlocker (Windows) has a shredding function?

Reminds me of an old David Bowie song: President Joe once had a dream, so he told them his scheme for a Saviour Machine . . .

I noticed my liability insurance plan has a new form about this with the renewal paperwork.

Since I didn't have an activation code for it, I assumed it was something extra that wasn't included in my package. So I just ignored it. I wondered what it was too.

I'm thinking the same thing. I received a PPC notice a while back. I just copied it and made a few handwritten notes on it and called it my plan. I'm just a one person office so I hope it suffices.

I don't have a set policy of raising everyone across the board or a set percentage. I look at each client. If the return is about the same (time wise), I'll raise every 2 or 3 years, $25 or maybe more. If the difficulty increases, I'll raise each year and more in dollars depending on the circumstances.

I tried it a few years ago. I don't recommend it. I had some problems. Since then, I have put ATX on the C drive and let the program put everything in its own files & folders on the C drive as the program wants to. I would install ATX on the C drive and let the ATX program put everything by default to the C drive as well. The program is looking and putting things where they think they should be. I do not want to interfere with that. I do put my client info and pdf copies of the returns and worksheets on my 2nd internal hard drive (E drive in my case). I also have both C & E drives encrypted.

I've always had it. Hate paying the premiums but I don't want to take the chance.

Ok, thanks.

My question is will insurance companies still be required to issue Forms 1095? I use the form as a convenient documentation for the child credits and Form 8867.

So as of now, there's no fee for 2020 renewal?