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    My client sold his business in 2021.Trying to efile a short year return in the 2020 tax system, it won't let me as there was a previous efiling?Do I have to file on paper

    Jen78
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    IRonMaN
    Level 15

    File on paper using the 2020 forms -------- manually cross off the "20" dates and replace them with a 21


    Slava Ukraini!
    abctax55
    Level 15

    Yes... paper.

    Do what Jeff says - be SURE to make any necessary depreciation adjustments manually.

    HumanKind... Be Both
    abctax55
    Level 15

    "..I had to get rid of the turtles - they kept running away".

    Wait, aren't you a coyote?  That's just sad, on many levels 🤣

    HumanKind... Be Both
    IRonMaN
    Level 15

    All of those years trying to catch a single roadrunner broke me.  


    Slava Ukraini!
    abctax55
    Level 15

    🤗

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