Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!claris!richard
From: richard@claris.UUCP (Richard Scorer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacInTax warning
Message-ID: <345@claris.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 23:15:20 GMT
References: <2492@utastro.UUCP> <5632@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <4998@nsc.nsc.com>
Reply-To: richard@claris.UUCP (Richard Scorer)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
Lines: 21
Keywords: MacInTax, bugs
Summary: It's a known bug

In article <4998@nsc.nsc.com> curry@nsc.UUCP (Ray Curry) writes:
>I encountered the bug in the 1040 EZ when doing my son's taxes.  Since he
>shows as a dependent on my return, he no longer gets to declare himself as
>a dependent.  That's one of those "loop holes" that got closed in the reform.
>Anyway the tax computation showed zero tax.  I had to use the 1040A form 
>instead.  At this point I'm not sure its worth the cost of a phone call to
>get that fixed unless I call to check on my California version.  Last year
>it arrived about the first week in April so I haven't started worrying yet.
>Anyway I don't know all the combinations that cause the problem but would
>guess that the zero dependent caused the problem.

Actually, it's a known bug in MacInTax which they are sending fixes out to
all _registered_ owners of MacInTax.  The problem is not related to zero
dependents, but in fact it just does not calculate tax on a 1040EZ at all.

As to the CA schedule, I got mine two days ago, but I ordered mine in Nov '87.


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