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Is the tax almanac another dead help link?

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April 1, 2020
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Every time I click on tax almanac within Lacerte, I get nothing on my screen. It is another dead help link? Does this resource no longer exist?

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Best answer by abctax55

It would be nice if you would reinstate the tax almanac or give us a way to reach its content. From what I heard that was a great resource.

I gave you a way to search it. Intuit isn't going to reinstate it.

Just-Lisa-Now-

Intuit Community Champion

I found a dead link to tax almanac in the ProSeries help screens as well.

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itonewbie

Level 15

@Just-Lisa-Now- wrote:
I found a dead link to tax almanac in the ProSeries help screens as well.

Wow, unbelievable! Is there a bounty for finding these dead links?

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itonewbie

Level 15

Tax Almanac was really good but it's long gone and all the links are dead. Are you using some very ancient version of Lacerte to prepare or amend prior year returns? AFAIK, Lacerte no longer has any links to Tax Almanac. But if you are referring to the many dead links in the Community, Intuit is aware but updating contents is just not a priority of the Contents team.

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klhhAuthor

Level 4

No. I started using Lacerte this year. This is what pops up on the help center area for Lacerte.

Online Help takes you to the Lacerte Web site, where you can find the most up-to-date support information, check on forms status, get release information, and much more.

You can also...

itonewbie

Level 15

@klhhIC. I just clicked on the Home Page of the Help Center and see that Research TaxAlmanac is still listed under Get Help Online.

Broken links are a real problem. In case you need any help, you may like to pose them to this Community as you normally get a response relatively quick.

@IntuitAustinCould you please work with the developers to remove the Help Center link to TaxAlmanac, which is no longer a functioning website? As you might be aware, the site is still indexed but none of the links work any longer. Thanks!

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abctax55

Level 15

For reasons that I still do NOT comprehend, Intuit shut Tax Alamanac down five (?) years ago.

The information is still there; you CAN still get to it by adding site:taxalmanac (I think that does it) to the end of your search term. MOST threads are cached, and accessible. The info there is still some of the best I've found.

edit... and some of the funniest. IF you can get there, find the "stale dated checks, dead kittens, etc thread". Who said *we (tax preparers, CPA's, etc)* don't have a sense of humor? It rivals the "troll party" thread on this forum.

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klhhAuthor

Level 4

Thank you! I will try it.

IntuitAustin

Level 10

Thanks for calling this out. I will ask the product team to remove any non applicable or dead links from the program.

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6637

Level 2

Tax Almanac was really good but it's long gone and all the links are dead. Are you using some very ancient version of Lacerte to prepare or amend prior year returns? AFAIK, Lacerte no longer has any links to Tax Almanac and glance.intuit.com. But if you are referring to the many dead links in the Community, Intuit is aware but updating contents is just not a priority. Resolve your query by simply visiting single page and you will get all the links that you want.

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klhhAuthor

Level 4

I am not using an ancient version. The dead links are still in the program or in the help section.

sjrcpa

Level 15

Yeah. Updating links is nowhere on Intuit's radar.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

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Anonymous

The deadlinks have been reported.
This isn't a high priority at the moment but your comments have been passed along, thanks all!

sjrcpa

Level 15

"The deadlinks have been reported. "

To whom?

We've been "reporting" the Tax Almanac thing for years. We figured out that fixing dead links is not a priority a long time ago, but this one should not be listed on the Lacerte in software help screen.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

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