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Howdy, how does one print out the cover letters for federal and state letters? Can't figure this out, I am afraind I won't be albe to use 400+ tax envelopes

In the past I would install ATX as a stand alone, then I would map a drive and run Netsetup to install it on another computer. I see ATX2012 has Netsetup, however I am afraid with everything that is going on with the program, that it might not work. Has anyone had any problems installing ATX on another computer using Netsetup, I don't have a server so mapping the drive will be only way on a WIN 7 machine for me. Any tips? Thanks MAS

I think we are screwed, just notice the IDR was dated back in early 2012, the prior agent never gave us a copy, TP never received a copy nor did she ever requested information for 2007 & 2008. We dealt most of 2011 and 2012 dealing with 2006 issues, we didn't agree with the changes, requested to be sent to appeals and now we get this. This is very shady on their part, the IDR is almost a year old, and it was sent to us barely last week.

Hello Rita, try to completely shut down your PC and restart it, sometimes files remain opened in the background even though you have closed the program.

Wondering if someone here has some experience with the appeals process. TP did not agree with the IRS changes for 2006 so the case was referred to appeals, a couple of months later a new agents sends out an IDR to examine 2007 & 2008, I am wondering if this is a normal process, when 2006 has not been resolved? Also if you can point to me to some reference material, I would really apprecaited, I am doing research for my associated. Thanks MAS

Just wondering, if you installed the software as network, instead of stand alone? When you intially install it, you get two options, stand alone or network, I am asking this because I installed it as stand alone on mine, however I need to add another computer soon. I might have to reinstall it as a network? MAS

Please tells us more, I would be interested in Prosystems FX. MAS

Same here, it was at 0% for the longest, I canceled it (just click on the X, hitting close doesn't do anything), then I read you can download the update from ATX website, that is I how manage to download it. I just installed it, opened a couple of test returns, printed one, it's still takes time to open a return, but it kicked me out when I clicked on update forms. MAS

I guess it was stuck on 25%, I paused it and it started downloading again and it only took 15min from 25 to 100%. Now to run the update.

I gave up on letting the program peform the download automatically, it's been now almost an hour trying to download the update from ATX website, good thing I have work to do

I don't know if this will work for 2012 but it's worth a try, install ATX2012 on the new PC, then make a copy of the database folder (old PC) and replace it the same database folder on the new PC. Or export all clients to a usb drive and then import. Both ways worked for 2011 and prior. MAS

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Does anyone here have experience in transfer pricing? Thanks MAS

Sometimes clients don't understand that their problems, becomes our problems and they need to fixed inorder to prepare acurate returns and there is a cost to that too Everyone here has probably had a client say, I bougth quickbooks, set it up myself and did my own accounting, it was pretty easy, well entering most of the revenue and expense to uncategorized is not accounting. I have learned my lesson from past experience and now I tell them it's going to take a approx. # hours to clean up the file and my fee is going to be between this and that, do you want for me to proceed. Now there is no confusion when I give them a bill for cleaning the file and for preparing the returns. MAS

It seems the fee you are paying is for the the enhanced payroll version, you can process up to 50 company payrolls with no limit of employees. You really don't need this if you don't do payrolls for other, they have standard version too. I had recommend Medlin to one of my client before, the program was great for the price, the only complaint the client had was they had to do all state forms by hand because the program only supported the state of California, now this was a couple of years ago, I don't if they have changed that now. Might be worth finding out. MAS

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Maybe this the reason why ATX made these changes for 2012: If you don't want to read the article here is a short clip from it. “The enhancements we’ve added to ATX 2012 make tax preparation as simple and stress-free as possible, and that’s a testament to a lot of hard work by a lot of dedicated people who took the time to listen to what tax professionals said they needed and then turned those comments into the software enhancements in ATX 2012,” said Jeff Gramlich, President of CCH SFS. “Tax professionals told us they needed software which met their unique needs and didn’t force them into cookie-cutter solutions,” http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/news/10772481/cch-sfs-announces-atx-2012

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Another big problem folks seem to over look, is what is connect to the computer e.g. external hard drives. I have two external hard drive, one is solely to for windows 7 hard drive backup and the other is for files I want to manually backup and carbonite mirror image, the drive that is used to for carbonite is always running and slows down the performance of the computer, if I disconnect the that hard drive and restart the computer, it loads very quick and it seems to be faster. MAS

I would recommend Quickbooks for Mac (what is affordable to them?) or simply buy a PC and get Medlin. I only use Mac's, however I spend extra money to be able to run Windows on them and it does get expensive for each computer. MAS

Funny, but true. I see tons of TV commercials, bring in your tax refund and buy this car, furniture etc.... We will even prepare your return.... I don't recommend none of this to my clients, I always tell them to save it and pay me first.

Too bad we can't ask how much cash money they have under the mattress, savings or if they receive food stamps or a housing allowance that frees up some of their earned income, but you will be surprised. In my experience I have seen TP make a couple of thousands, but have a few thousands in savings and this is considered low income?

Gives me an idea.. http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t4#/video/us/2013/01/17/mxp-man-pays-14k-tax-bill-with-change.hln

The 1099-k is a disaster, for example if you own a restaurant and most of your sales are credit cards sales and there are tips, your 1099-k will show the tips as part of the monthly gross sales. What do most restaurant and employees do? They don't report tips therefore there is a discrepancy between the tax return and the 1099-k. Well times have changed.