"So Lacerte, I posted this query on Feb. 2, 2021, going on two years now and no response"

Two years is a literal drop in the bucket of "ongoing requests" for Lacerte.  I have printouts from the Ctrl+L(email module within the Lacerte program) from the first half-dozen years of the new millenium (when there was still a Ctrl+L[email module within the Lacerte program]) of, literally, copy/pasting the EXACT SAME MESSAGE complaining about the EXACT SAME THING, and quoting the service ticket reference of the preceding year.

I got so tired of the canned response that, "while they value customer suggestions, it was too late in the development cycle to make any changes for that year's program," that I was saying, "Great, put this in the queue for NEXT year."

And after a couple of years of hearing THE SAME **bleep** RESPONSE, I started saying, "Great, put me in the queue for TWO years out.  You know what, go FIVE years out."

Guess what?  Most of those things I was griping about, in the early 2000's...  remain uncorrected.

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Yeah, "two years" is NOTHING for the Lacerte Development Complaint Cycle.

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One of the other members of the old Yahoo!Group for LTUG ("Lacerte Tax User Group") had a VBA script that let him read & output the binary data files for the Lacerte programs.  I got my hands on that in 2008 (for TY2007), and started extracting all of the detail.  (page10/wages, here are the entries, whether or not it is spouse, and so on)  The Tax Summary tells you, "Wages, 150k"...  but not WHO is earning the wages, nor whether or not they're in an employer plan, nor what the split is Client/Spouse, nor...
  Seeing the data allowed for that.

That was in calendar 2008, looking at TY2007 data.

Calendar 2018, I was reached out to by some of the developers at Lacerte who were putting together the ODBC connection, and got *AUTHORIZED* access to the tax detail.  (Which was necessary, because the hacking utility was invalidated by the updated encryption that Lacerte put on their files for TY2015.)

Ten years.  And I had been *asking* for the capability LONG before--think "starting in the 1990s"--I got access to it with Dennis' utility in 2008.

Two years is nothing.



Robert

P.S.  More may have *SEEN* it; 376 is simply the number of people who chose to VOTE for it.