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Urgent: QuickBooks Payroll Error

Here is an urgent QuickBooks payroll error for Florida users. A new Florida law cut the maximum annual unemployment tax wages to $8,000 per employee per year. Florida computed new unemployment tax rates, in notices sent a few days ago. These changes were effective January 1, so this QuickBooks payroll error made prior QuickBooks payroll tax accruals wrong.

It is, of course, not Intuit's fault that the Florida Legislature acted irresonsibly, by passing a retrocative law. However, it is Intuit's fault the the current QuickBooks desktop payroll tax table does not reflect the new law. I did not yet check this with Intuit online payroll, or call Intuit to find out when they will have a correction, for this QuickBooks tax table payroll error . Therefore, DO NOT FILE your April 30 Florida unemployment tax return until you verify the tax rate and maximum amount.

In accordance with a long standing Florida policy on accelerating receipts, these UCT6 returns say they are due April 1, but that a penalty applies after April 30. That means the due date is April 30.

Please contact us with any questions. Of course, if you use our $12 monthly automatic payroll, we do all this for you.

Big Republican Mistake, Paperwork Nightmare

What began as a big Democratic mistake has now led to a big Republican mistake. Republicans are often likely to vote for smaller government and less deficit spending. At a time of outrageous deficits and government growth, a big majority of Americans want that. However, on July 30, deficit reduction efforts led to a very big Republican mistake over a paperwork nightmare.

Less than $2 billion a year, of the trillions needed by the new Healthcare law, was to come from taxes on those under reporting income. To get it, Healthcare created a paperwork nightmare. Businesses were to file four billion more 1099 forms, starting in 2012. Business people (and the Internal Revenue Taxpayer Advocate) strongly opposed the complexity and cost, which would especially damage small business. Businesses also sharply cut political contributions to Democrats.

House leaders tried to fix the paperwork nightmare early, so it needed a two-thirds vote. It failed, as nearly all Democrats voted yes and nearly all Republicans no. Republicans wanted to make up lost revenue by changing other parts of Healthcare. Democrats wanted to raise taxes of international corporations and limit trusts to avoid gift taxes. Neither saw why this became a big Republican mistake.

They did not see that repealing the paperwork nightmare would automatically INCREASE tax collections. That is because this Healthcare Mess would make businesses spend $100+ billion per year filing 1099s. These costs would cut income taxes by $25+ billion a year. Congress also should save billions on the extra Internal Revenue agents, who were to enforce the 1099s, and persecute small businesses, by tripling the number of their tax audits. Almost all economists agree that small businesses create 100% of net new jobs, so this could have meant the Great Depression of 2012. That means 1099 repeal revenue, and related Internal Revenue cost savings, are around 15 times the mythical $2 billion in tax collections. This was a very big Republican mistake. Why should it take a Florida small-business CPA to see that?

The $2 billion also was always mythical, because it is hard to match business 1099s to taxable gross income. In 45+ years of heavy tax practice, I never heard of one such case. This is partly because only some consider cost reimbursements to be income. In addition, massive adoption of accrual accounting and fiscal year income tax returns would make 1099 matching impossible. The many new 1099s, in big new payment categories, with many new payees and recipients, plus credit card and debit card exemptions, also guarantee countless errors and a massive INCREASE in cash payments and non-reporting. We still get limited compliance with 1960s travel and entertainment diary rules, so opposing repeal was a big Republican mistake.

The Healthcare 1099 repeal involves smaller government, less business and government spending, . It deserves unanimous bi-partisan support.

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Free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic, QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, H6000 type

The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP.    

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The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP. The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is so fast and easy to download http://ht.ly/1OAsh and use that the four-minute video is overkill.

The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP. The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is so fast and easy to download http://ht.ly/1OAsh and use that the four-minute video is overkill.

The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP. The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is so fast and easy to download http://ht.ly/1OAsh and use that the four-minute video is overkill.

The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP. The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is so fast and easy to download http://ht.ly/1OAsh and use that the four-minute video is overkill.

The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP.

The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is so fast and easy to download http://ht.ly/1OAsh and use that the four-minute video is overkill.The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is very good for QuickBooks Errors H202, H505, and H6000 type errors. This free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic works with QuickBooks 2008 – 2010, Enterprise 8 -10, and Windows 7, Vista, or XP. The free QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic is so fast and easy to download http://ht.ly/1OAsh and use that the four-minute video is overkill.

QuickBooks Hosting Mistakes

Everything I hear about the QuickBooks hosting mistakes makes them worse. I hate writing about QuickBooks hosting mistakes, but private conversations and emails with our QuickBooks friends left me no choice. Search: new QuickBooks hosting (below)

QuickBooks hosting mistakes limited QuickBooks to five users in a file at once SIMULTANEOUSLY, when Enterprise allowed 30 users. The new QuickBooks hosting mistakes let Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors self-host. This leaves out three times as many untested QuickBooks ProAdvisors, though a giant Intuit diploma mill still helps them overcharge QuickBooks users for unproven advice. However, the new QuickBooks hosting mistakes let equally untested QuickBooks Enterprise ISPs self-host, because they pay $2,500 a year instead of $449. The new QuickBooks hosting mistakes also criminalizes all in-house Terminal Server and Citrix users, who probably vastly outnumber out-house Terminal Server and Citrix users.

The new QuickBooks hosting mistakes effectively require commercial hosting company executives to plead guilty to criminal copyright violations, without a Miranda warning. That is because the new QuickBooks hosting mistakes use a copyright violation approach, when top Intuit execs very actively, consistently, and enthusiastically encouraged massive criminal copyright violations for many years. Many, like me, will testify to these new QuickBooks mistakes. However, it is very silly to think we will have to testify to this fact, since Intuit always actively supported QuickBooks Enterprise under such criminal-copyright violating hosting.

The new QuickBooks hosting seeks to kill companies Intuit executives built, knowing they were encouraging criminal copyright violations. It is silly that new QuickBooks hosting executives do not remove the QuickBooks Software License Agreement prohibition on shared computer use, when QuickBooks and all network servers violate it. It is silly that Intuit execs do not purge their own criminal co-conspirator liability, by doing what their acts always guaranteed: removal of the shared computer prohibition in the QuickBooks Software License Agreement. Intuit can now license every criminal copyright violator. However, it is very silly to think that this will grant its executives, hosting company executives, and hundreds of thousands of QuickBooks USERS immunity for past crimes. Top Intuit execs must admit that their acts guaranteed the removal of the shared computer provision. This is the only way top Intuit execs can protect themselves, and all these well-meaning individuals, from criminal charges. It is clear that, if Intuit does not do this, any prosecutor can file these criminal charges without Intuit consent.

If the QuickBooks hosting mistakes persist, there may be tragic consequences for CPAs, Realtors, architects, engineers, doctors, lawyers, and other licensed professionals. Large numbers of such professionals may well have a history of using unlicensed QuickBooks hosting. Even those using the three licensed providers, may well have a history of using these or other QuickBooks hosting providers before they became licensed. The current QuickBooks hosting mistakes criminalize this. Legitimate later licensed use cannot purge such crimes. Intuit can only protect them by removing the shared computer use provision from the QuickBooks Software License Agreement.

Many federal and state professional boards, regulating these professions, can sanction and suspend members pending expensive appeals. The thousands of QuickBooks hosting companies would do well to notify the members of these and other professions about this matter. They also should raise the ante by having complaints against many members filed with the regulatory boards. It is, of course, accurate to say that Intuit is trying to make all these professionals criminals retroactively. The Constitution protects against ex-post-facto laws. However, it does not protect against later criminal charges, where offenses were always against the law, unless an unlikely statute of limitations applies. It will take a judge and jury to decide if our crimes were defensible.

You may to defend yourself by proving that (for example) a President and his Administration were notorious public drinkers during Prohibition, or that top Intuit executives actively encouraged your copyright violations, as I surely will. It will be tragic for Intuit if we must sue QuickBooks friends over this, by making them involuntary (but richly deserving) civil co-defendants and criminal co-conspirators. However, that will be the inevitable class-action result if Intuit acts against even one hosting company or QuickBooks user. I will facilitate this partly by becoming an affiliate seller for many hosting companies. If Intuit then acts against any of the companies, I will have my own basis for a class action countersuit. Of course, the class will then seek financial damages, damages to reputation, and monopoly sanctions.

One big QuickBooks hosting mistakes involves Intuit's apparent plan to act against QuickBooks hosting companies. There may be precedent for this in the Napster and related cases, where the companies created a platform to facilitate copyright violations. However, none of the cases followed anything like the many years of QuickBooks inaction (laches) and the very active encouragement by top Intuit executives. The other critical difference involves venue. Venue refers to where you try cases and applicable law. Most QuickBooks hosting companies do not license QuickBooks. They simply install user copies of it on their servers. These hosting companies are, therefore, exempt from a QuickBooks Software License Agreement provision that requires most QuickBooks users to litigate in California. This means Intuit will face lawsuits all over the world.

For example, all you will need for an Indian judge and jury, with Indian laws, will be to get a few of the many Indian hosting companies and QuickBooks users to sue. They can serve a visiting top Intuit executive or ME! I will gladly go to India (or elsewhere) if necessary, to facilitate any such litigation, to the best of my ability. I will do so because I clearly induced many such companies to enter into and expand QuickBooks hosting and outsourcing businesses, while doing business with several of them. I did so partly in connection with my "Secrets of Outsourcing" cover story in Accounting Technology magazine. Top Intuit executives arranged this story after tremendously encouraging representatives of one such company. Of course, if named as a defendant, I will then gladly make Intuit a co-defendant, while cooperating with QuickBooks hosting companies on where to try cases.

I often testified in court. A federal case resulted in a big U.S. Supreme Court win. A lawyer-type appearance, before Florida's Supreme Court, was equally successful. I am now trying to conservatively Intuit damages if it keeps trying to collect a paltry amount of new QuickBooks hosting revenue. Damages may be in the billions. Under SEC law, far smaller claims require financial statement disclosure. Claims this big should cause immediate significant damage to Intuit stock prices.

I am now positive that the QuickBooks hosting mistakes will result in major litigation unless Intuit finds a better approach. The QuickBooks hosting mistakes will cost Microsoft and Citrix thousands of high-ticket sales, so they may well join a suit against Intuit. There also should be monopoly investigations here or in the European Common Market, not to mention a Florida Constitutional amendment petition. The Indian outsourcing industry might well apply to the World Court.

Under the circumstances, it may be fatal for any QuickBooks hosting company to complete the new QuickBooks hosting documents. These documents contain financial, operating, and security data that would wreck any company in any industry, However, Intuit expressly says that it may make this public. Even if it does not, the certain litigation will do so.

Then there is the timing of QuickBooks hosting mistakes payments. The very few hosting companies invited, after surviving an initial $3,000 security audit, will prepay $15,000 one year and $3,000 in later years, They also will pay $5 / customer / month at the beginning of each month. Yes, at the beginning of each month, before hosting companies know how many customers they really have. I do not yet know if the QuickBooks hosting mistakes also will require payment for the very common free trial customers, but it seems likely.

As I said, I hate writing about QuickBooks hosting mistakes, but private conversations and emails with our QuickBooks friends left me no choice.

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Intuit QuickBooks Hosting Mistakes, QuickBooks Online Errors vs QuickBooks Errors

The Intuit QuickBooks Hosting Mistakes include remote substitutes for QuickBooks desktop. QuickBooks Online is horribly slow. QuickBooks Online lacks many very popular QuickBooks desktop features. Intuit gives QuickBooks ProAdvisors QuickBooks Online free, but very few QuickBooks ProAdvisors use QuickBooks Online for internal accounting or suggest it for clients. My South Florida QuickBooks Meetup co-organizer and I disagree about QuickBooks Online users. He says QuickBooks Online users are future QuickBooks desktop users. I say QuickBooks Online users are ignorant or masochists.

Now I see that Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes show that the QuickBooks Online Errors are far worse than regular QuickBooks Errors. Click these Google links for the latest QuickBooks Errors and QuickBooks Online Errors. There were 391,000 web pages with QuickBooks Errors vs 344,000 pages with QuickBooks Online Errors when I wrote this. There are around eight times as many QuickBooks users as QuickBooks Online users, so equivalent mistakes should show error rates should have shown only 48,875 errors in QuickBooks Online. There really should be far fewer QuickBooks Online errors, since a Google search for QuickBooks Errors (without quotes) should include all QuickBooks Online Errors. There also should be far less QuickBooks Online errors, due to the increased control Intuit has over the QuickBooks Online program and the equipment used to run it. Instead, QuickBooks Online has 600% more errors per user than QuickBooks desktop. 

It gets far worse if you compare the error rates of the Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes. Google "QuickBooks errors" hosting OR citrix OR "terminal server" QuickBooks hosting errors. Google had 1,120 web pages with these errors when I wrote this, vs 3,570,000 web pages for QuickBooks Citrix alone. The Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes become still worse when you see that Intuit only mentions Microsoft, in connection with its Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes documents. Intuit should have known that Google had only 97,500 links for quickbooks terminal server (Microsoft) and 545,000 for QuickBooks hosting. These Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes are very bad, as Intuit had to know that Citrix runs three to four times faster than Microsoft terminal server, using 73% less bandwidth (even though Microsoft copied terminal server from an early version of Citrix). The dramatic contrast between the number of Google links for QuickBooks Citrix and QuickBooks terminal server (or terminal services) fully confirms these Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes.

Other Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes involve Digital Insight, for which Intuit paid $1.35 billion in 2007. Digital Insight provides online banking accounting software that banks offer to customers. It is rapidly expanding, but Intuit has yet to teach QuickBooks ProAdvisors about this software. Intuit also has yet to teach QuickBooks ProAdvisors about Quicken Online and its recent fast-growing Mint acquisition.

All this means Intuit should be doing all it can to encourage desktop QuickBooks under Citrix. The Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes will instead kill 99% of QuickBooks hosting companies and favor terminal services over the clearly superior Citrix product. That is why even Microsoft now offers Citrix hosting. The $28 per user per month price for this is less than half the price charged by the three companies now offering terminal server Intuit QuickBooks hosting mistakes.

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