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Level 2
November 3, 2023
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  • November 3, 2023
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With so many businesses receiving money from the ERTC in 2022 and forward, these forms (which are now required to be e-filed) are really necessary to have for any partnerships affected.  Is there any slated time period for them to be available?

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Level 10
May 19, 2025

yes, agree with this. In my case the individual partner received a total of $3000 for two separate years.  Since I don't have these two tax years in my software but have the actual tax returns, I'll need to manually calculate the tax and the amounts for each line of F8978. The 8978 has no line for Sch 1 adjustments so I think those belong on Line 3a.  So the F8978 don't correspond with the actual 1040.

It's tedious. 

There should be a better way.

Then there are the penalties and interest. And I'm not going to calculate those manually. Which likely means the client will receive notices from the IRS/FTB. Which means I'll be having to answer questions about it in a year.

Level 10
May 19, 2025

Please consolidate this suggestion with the others on the same subject.