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If a partnership or s corporation tax return is completed within ProConnect that has gains resulting from dispositions of assets with 179, the gains are reported in box 20L for a 1065 return and box 17K for a 1120S return. ProConnect indicates that the following must be completed in order to report the gain:"Enter these amounts in the Dispositions input screen. Be sure to check the box for "disposition from K-1 supplemental information.""Gains from dispositions of 179 assets should be automatically data shared from the business to the individual tax return. The gain was already reported on the business return and then ProConnect states you have to re-enter the gain information on the personal. This is a decrease in efficiency and potential accuracy of the tax returns. The preparer has to spend the unnecessary time entering in something twice and there is a higher risk of reporting the gain information incorrectly. If ProConnect date shared this information automatically, this would increase the processing time and accuracy of the tax return by eliminating the need for manual data entry.
My client runs business through a single member LLC. The LLC income is reported on 1040 Schedule C. The LLC paid $800 FTB tax that is not deductible for CA purposes. On the input screen, there is no "state, if different" available under "taxes and licenses". Why?
I have multiple clients, all residents of NYS and NJ, that get K-1's from California and also participate in the California PTE program. In the case when the PTE credit reduces the CA tax to zero, the program does not generate an IT-112R or NJ-COJ for the CA tax pre-credit. If the credit partially reduces the CA tax but there's a remaining balance, the program will generate the above forms, but only uses the remaining CA balance due to calculate the credit. The reality is, the PTE credit reduction is supposed to be ignored by the software when determining the other state tax credit. In both examples from above I have to manually setup the credit for taxes paid to CA. I think this is an easily fixable issue, or I hope it is.
I'm working on a tax return which includes some foreign accounts and some of them are joint accounts.I mentioned if there are more than 2 joint accounts then when you process the return then it should be duplicate pages that shows the same accounts and amounts in 114 form. It's correct when you print but in the Lacerte you still see the duplicate pages on the form.
Lacerte posts an update in late Sept each year. This update asks if you would like to roll over your client files to be ready for next tax season. I now have to answer no, for two weeks, while I finish 2023 taxes before the deadline. Until those returns on extension are finished, I am not ready to roll over the clients into 2024 folders. I would like Lacerte to post this update after October 15th. Do you feel the same?
I wish there was a way in profile preferences to time the refresh cycle of intuit passwords that was more convenient to my business cycle. I always seem to have to change my password right in the middle of a deadline week. It is frustrating to have to remember a new password at exactly the time when you need speed and efficiency to login to Lacerte and Quickbooks Online.
When I login using my unique user and password credentials , it would be so helpful if the tax return I then created would recognize me as the preparer by default, using MY preparer code rather the " 01" default user which then needs to be changed. It's just one more step , but in a busy tax season it sometimes gets forgotten, it would be nice to not have to think about that, esp. since there is a commission element in our firm to pay preparers. I posted this years ago and still no option for this .
Lacerte should have User settings to be able to customize the PDF naming convention. If I want to Print a corporation's client copy to PDF I should be able to have the PDF name be <Tax Year> <Corp Name> "Return"Whereas the government copy could be<Tax Year> <Corp Name> "Signature Pages" So that the files are clear when they get emailed to the client. Right now the client sees everything in caps, their client number which has no significance to them, underscores and then government copy (if you are printing government) which they also don't understand.Having customization around the printing makes it so preparers don't always have to rename their printed PDFs before uploading to their client portals or sending them to clients (password protected of course).
Crystal was very helping me determine how to remove my personal EFIN from my previous employer's Proconnect account.
The instructions to create an amended return for efile start with saying to change the name of the accepted tax return file to COPY. There is nothing other than that file name to tell me, the preparer, which file should be amended and which file should be left alone. It is far too easy to use the wrong file to create the amendment.If you use the wrong file to create an amendment, the program gives very confusing information. While it allows any file with a 1040X to be electronically submitted for filing, it doesn't protect the preparer from submitting the wrong file. You end up with one file that says EF Accepted when in fact that file has been amended and the amendment has been rejected. It becomes very confusing.Please protect me from myself and make it so only the file with the 1040X can be transmitted. If an original return has been accepted and then an amendment is needed, make it impossible for the file containing the EF Accepted status to be refiled.
Currently when you create an amended return, the original return filing status and extension status are associated with the Amended Return. These statuses should stay with the original return because otherwise you lose the audit trail affect of knowing original returns/extensions were accepted once the Amended return is filed.When the amended return is created, the filing and extension statuses should be associated with the Original return. The amended return filing and extension statuses will be blank until the amended return is eFiled. Once the amended return is eFiled, the filing status for the amended return should be reflected under return filing status for that amended return. This way you have a record and audit trail of both the original return and the amended return separately.
I copied from a comment by NW Accountant from 2021 but still relevant in 2024 and a good suggestion. I am working on an Arkansas return and cannot find a place in Lacerte where I can indicate that they are MFJ on the state return. I think it's great that Lacerte would automatically select the filing status that would result in the greatest tax benefit to the client, but I would like to be in the know as to how that determination was made and see the comparison myself. Thanks!
Copied from a comment by NW Accountant from 2021 but still relevant in 2024 and a good suggestion.08-12-2021 02:44 PM I am working on an Arkansas return and cannot find a place in Lacerte where I can indicate that they are MFJ on the state return. I think it's great that Lacerte would automatically select the filing status that would result in the greatest tax benefit to the client, but I would like to be in the know as to how that determination was made and see the comparison myself. Thanks!
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