Tax Assistant for Excel 4.2

Tax Assistant for Excel 4.2 is a program for Microsoft Excel requiring Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP/2003/2007, that makes your Federal Income Tax preparation easier by offering Excel workbooks with IRS approved substitutes of Form 1040 including Schedules A, B, C, C-EZ, D, D-1, E, SE, Forms 6251 (AMT), 4952, 6781,  and Form 1040A with Schedule 1.

There are also a number of worksheets related to deductions and Schedule D including the Social Security Benefits, Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax, and Child Tax Credit worksheets. Your sources of income, deductions, capital gain transactions as well as partnership and S corporation income are entered on separate worksheets. The data from these worksheets is then automatically entered into the correct forms.

Major Features:

1. Tax Assistant for Excel helps you determine whether to itemize deductions, automatically calculates your tax and provides a computerized record of your tax filing.
2. The program also provides an automated Schedule D and D-1 preparation that is especially helpful for active traders and other taxpayers with a large number of trades to report.
3. In addition to the more common income reporting, you can report income from up to five different businesses, rents, royalties, estates and trusts, as well as income from partnerships and S corporations.
4. The forms provided in Tax Assistant for Excel are accurate reproductions of the actual forms and are approved by the IRS.
5. While the program will help you with your tax preparation, it does require that you follow some IRS instructions in order to accurately complete your tax return. If you do not feel comfortable with this approach, you should purchase an interview based tax preparation software package or hire a professional to prepare your tax return.
   
6. Even if you use other tax preparation software or a tax professional, Tax Assistant for Excel can provide IRS approved electronic copies of your tax return in the common Microsoft Excel file format for long term storage.

• Updated for the 2008 tax season and provides several formatting improvements.

Requirements: Microsoft Excel