PA Local Tax Returns

I have used the PA Local Return that Proseries provides and have never had a return rejected because it did not include cents.

Dusty

I find the inability to use cents a bit annoying myself; but there is no way around it.

In my area many of the Local returns go to Berkheimer. This leads to a new mathematical concept I call Berkheimer rounding.

Berkheimer recalculates each return to the penny. If I show a refund of $5.00 and the actual refund should be $4.98, client will get a refund of $4.98. If the actual refund works out to $5.05, the client will get $5.00.

BTW, I have noticed that many of the Local tax refunds from 2007 have not been carrying over to line 10 of the 2008 Form 1040. Some do, some don't. I understand that the amount is not always taxable, but there appears to be some bug in the carryover worksheet. No pattern noticed as of yet.

Thanks. Yes Berkheimer Tax Administrator is the collector that I am having problems with. My clients are slowly receiving notices from the 2007 tax year indicating that their "return has been audited and adjusted due to rounding." Although only a handful compared to the amount of returns that are generated out of this office, it is still frustrating to have to take time to address the issue with the clients because they have no clue what to do with the notice that they received. I have tried to "override" the local form in ProSeries but there is no override to add cents manually. Perhaps a feature ProSeries should consider adding next year.