First, make sure all income is properly allocated between spouses. Then do a "Save As" , create new file under a different file name, and swap names and personal info on the federal worksheet, and reallocate income. Then simply choosing MFS as the filing status should include only taxpayer income on each return. You may need to do further tweaking--when I tried this, ProSeries gave errors on the W-2's that were assigned to the spouse, and I needed to remove them. I know this is kind of a clunky way to do it, but I don't know of a better way unless someone else does. Would be nice if you could do it with only one file.

This behavior is not a bug, but is by design because of Illinois rules. Either you treat them both as residents, or you choose MFS. See the following taken from this website: https://www2.illinois.gov/rev/individuals/filingrequirements/Pages/filingstatus.aspx If you file a joint federal return and one spouse is a full-year Illinois resident while the other is a part-year resident or a nonresident (e.g., military personnel), you may choose to file “married filing separately.” Do not recompute any items on your federal return. Instead, you must divide each item of income and deduction shown on your joint federal return between your separate Illinois returns following the Allocation Worksheet in the Form IL-1040 Instructions. If you choose to file a joint Illinois return, you must treat both your spouse and yourself as residents. This election is irrevocable for the tax year. You may be allowed a credit for income tax paid to another state on Schedule CR. For more information, see the Schedule CR Instructions.

Assuming your state allows different filing status than federal, you can use the checkbox on the state information worksheet to designate MFS, and use that for the main taxpayer. Then you will need to create a separate file for the spouse, entering him/her as the primary taxpayer, and use that file for state purposes only. I've done that for PA. If that doesn't work for your state, another option would be to create 3 separate files--one for Federal, and 2 for states. Beware that some states don't allow for the filing status to be different from the Federal.

That's the whole problem. I need to be able to manually enter it without overriding, if this is not the year of sale, so that line 24 calculates correctly. In prior years, Part I didn't need to be filled out unless it was the year of sale. Now IRS wants you to fill it out for all years, but line 19 needs the same percentage you used in the year of sale. So if this is not the year of sale, line 19 will not have the correct percentage if automatically calculated. Line 19 should be automatically calculated in the year of sale only. "19  Gross profit percentage (expressed as a decimal amount). Divide line 16 by line 18. (For years after the year of sale, see instructions)"

What you are looking for is the first 3 characters of the Document Number. It is often a combination of numbers and letters. It could be on the front or back, and it may be preceded by IDUSA. This website might help you: https://dmv.ny.gov/id-card/sample-photo-documents

Here's the solution they gave me, and so far it works. On the Admin workstation, go to C:\ProSeries\ProNet17\Updates. Delete all the files below the .htm files. Then go to C:\ProWin17 and open inventory.dat in notepad. Delete all the lines above "Components" and save the file. Then run ProSeries update and it should work without crashing. I have yet to test the other workstations to see if it works there. Note: these are the instructions for a network install. Procedure will likely be different for a standalone install.

It's February and I have the same problem. There are other December posts with the same problem, but I haven't seen a solution posted. I have a network install, and updater crashes on the Admin workstation as well as the other workstations. The original problem was the 1065's and 1120S's not showing up on the workstations. So I tried a clean install on the admin workstation, then I get the update crashing error. If I install just the 1040, it works fine. As soon as I add the 1065, updater crashes. And yes, I've rebooted numerous times in the process. I even tried to clean up the registry of all prior traces of ProSeries 2017, and also tried using another computer as the Admin computer. Same problem. I've been on hold with support for an hour, and have to go soon. IF I ever get a hold of somebody, I'll post an update.