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I'm surprised so many have lasted this long. Most of them lived in the fast lane in their early years. To quote Neil Young, 'the damage done'.

Glenn Frey, now Paul Kantner.

Jack, irs.gov under minimum essential coverage lists Medicare Part A.

Some have mentioned using e signature services. How does it work? How often do you use it? What circumstances? Other then 8879s (for the other spouse who doesn't come in), I'm wondering how often I would use it. I currently have a ShareFile account and they called the other day offering this service. Supposedly is good for legal documents, etc.

As a side question, does having Medicare Part A but not Part B satisfy the minimum essential coverage requirement? Part A would be free and not show up on SSA-1099.

So far so good here.

Just to verify. S corp. Two shareholders/employees, husband and wife. No other employees. It is my understanding that they are treated as one employee and therefore exempt from ACA. Treatment of their health insurance premiums as in past. Box 1 on W2, not in Boxes 3 & 5. Above line deduction on personal 1040.

I use the comparison for myself on all clients. But I only include it with the client's copy of returns for select clients. The same for a few select worksheets.

Or in top horizontal menu, Forms, Planning/Analysis, Last Year Comparison.

I got the Drake demo one year and purchased it for the next two years, while keeping and using ATX. I must be crazy to have done that but I wanted to give Drake a fair chance. In the end I really didn't stick with it enough and was just too comfortable with ATX. So I can't give a fair evaluation of Drake. I'm just a one person office. For years, I thought any large office would want to use the higher end programs such as ProSeries or Lacerte. I know they're a lot more expensive but I assumed these firms would also have much greater volume and revenues to budget for that. They have to evaluate that themselves. I'll stick with ATX and hopefully ride out my final few years without any major disruption.

I've not filed a 706 and probably won't have any clients like that. The only circumstance I can think of filing a 706 myself would be the first of a couple to die and you just want to check the box for the carryover exemption. Even if they don't have much money, just in case the surviving spouse came into some money later.

Is it due to being on a network? or number of clients (Jack mentioned 400 clients)? If number of clients, why would it happen so early or are you rolling over all clients up front? Just wondering why some are having the problem and not others.

Back in 2012, I had the program on one drive and my files on another drive. Not a good idea. After that, I had all ATX on the one drive (C). That was my previous computer and my C drive was an SSD with limited space. That's why I initially had the files on the D drive. With my current computer, my SSD is much bigger and space is not a problem. I still have a 2nd HD (traditional type). I think ATX recommends having everything on the same drive. Like Abby, I have it encrypted too (Bit Locker). Would prefer PGP (now owned by Symantec) but PGP told me my new drives were not yet ready for PGP. That was a year and a half ago though.

Has anyone else had trouble updating to 15.2? Stand alone system? I was going to update Monday until I saw this thread. Put it off. I'm just working with the Payroll program for now.

Ground control to Major Tom...

Same here on updating OS on an existing computer. I did it once way back going from W95 to W98. I just think there are too many things going on unknown in the background. Not to mention the older hardware being used.

I wonder if the whole industry isn't reaching a point of diminishing returns. They must continue to think of ways to keep their profits coming in. MS, Apple, and all the established companies. Then there are all these tech startups (unicorns they're called) with apps that seem goofy and most aren't even profitable.

The insidious thing about a lot of software programs today is that if you stop renewing, you can't access past versions that you already paid for, even when the software is installed on your own computer, and not in the cloud.

Interesting. Sounds like he liked 8 and 8.1 a lot. Maybe MS overreacted to the 'I hate W8' crowd. Or maybe they're cursed for skipping the number 9. Ha. I have a fairly new 8.1 system. Normally I don't upgrade an existing system so I wasn't going to upgrade. I'll wait to when I need a new system and see if W11 or W12 is out by then. Ha.

I agree for 2016. I'm just trying get the W2 right for 2015 and avoid amended and corrected W2.

This article only includes Notice 2015-17. It does not mention Notice 2015-87. My question is does 2015-87 override (stop) the extension for the S Corp shareholder/employee that 2015-17 gives him thru 2015. I'm referring to an S Corp shareholder/employee who has other employees (not those with only one employee-the shareholder).

I thought by default, a SMLLC was taxed as a sole proprietorship and a MMLLC was taxed as a partnership. Or you have to actively elect with the IRS for the LLC to be taxed otherwise.

Same here. I don't like to upgrade an existing system. I usually wait until I get a new system.

Yes, Outlook is part of the Office Suite. W8 came with a separate mail program. I assume W10 does too. I have W8 but don't use that mail program. I use Outlook. I didn't have a problem. Not sure what's going on with Gene.

No. 2 Does this refer to the other employees of an S corp or does it include the S Corp shareholder/employee? I understood that Notice 2015-17 allowed the S Corp shareholder/employee to continue previous treatment thru 2015 (that is ins premiums reported in W2 Box 1, but not Box 3 & 5).