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Please add Form 8697 "Interest Computation Under the Look-Back Method for Completed Long-Term Contracts"

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Please add Form 8697 "Interest Computation Under the Look-Back Method for Completed Long-Term Contracts"

jim1149

Form 8697 should be added to your software because anyone who is an owner in a construction company that reports income on the percentage of completion method or completed contract method will have to deal with the look-back period interest for contracts that span two or more years.  We have clients that have to deal with this issue and not having Form 8697 supported by ProSeries causes the ineligibility for the federal tax return to be filed electronically and therefore certain states can no longer be filed electronically.  We can't imagine that this is not a wide-spread issue -- there are many individuals who have this issue -- there are many construction companies who have long-term construction contracts.

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Terry53029
Level 14
Level 14

It is already in ProSeries Pro, at least in 1120S. Not sure about other entities, but if in 1120S it may be. On page 1 of 1120S, just under line 2 is an additional taxes work sheet line B for the 8697

Terry53029
Level 14
Level 14

It is also in 1065 page 1, line 23

lhesse
Level 2

I believe the OP is asking for it to be included in the 1040 forms, and I agree.  Being forced to paper file the returns for an owner of Construction company is really unfortunate, especially now (in 2022) with the IRS backlog.  My clients think I should change software providers.

IntuitGabi
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