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our club is breaking up. our Bivio subscription ends on Feb 15 2016. do you think it is necessary for us to pay another year subscription from 2016 to 2017 to accommodate the tax preparation for next year. We will be closing all our accounts and distributing the proceeds so if we need to pay for another year we will have to do so before this is done. Any thoughts
our club is breaking up. our Bivio subscription ends on Feb
15 2016. do you think it is necessary for us to pay another
year subscription from 2016 to 2017 to accommodate the tax
preparation for next year. We will be closing all our
accounts and distributing the proceeds so if we need to pay
for another year we will have to do so before this is done.
Any thoughts


Joy:

Whether you have to pay to use the software after the
expiration of your subscription can only be answered by
bivio.

if you are asking whether you should pay to use the software
after the expiration of your subscription, then in my humble
opinion the answer is yes.

Your subscription expired on Feb 15th, some two months ago.
Yet, you will need to use bivio's services to account for
the sale of securities between Feb 15 and the ending of the
partnership, to perform the calculations for member
withdrawals, and produce the final partnership tax returns.
(By the way, you cannot wait until 2017 to file the final
federal partnership return. It is due, I believe, 4 months
from the date the partnership ends.)

All of these accounting services is what a bivio
subscription provides, plus lots of hand-holding if you need
help, why would you not want to pay for the services
rendered?

If your question is whether you should perform all the
accounting tasks associated with winding up a partnership
manually, I would say try to do it only if you are glutten
for punishment and place little value on your time.

Jack Ranby

These are the instructions to follow if your club is disbanding:

Disbanding Your Investment Club

You can't rush through disbanding. You need to factor in enough time to complete the receipt of all your income and your final disbanding transactions.

You also need to be aware of the different tax filing deadlines and dates of availability of the bivio tax programs you can use.

All of this is described in the link above.

As long as you have an Active bivio subscription during any point when you need to do any accounting and prepare any tax returns, you are fine. Your disbanding plan will determine whether or not you'd need to renew to achieve that.

If you have questions that are specific to your clubs plans, send them to support@bivio.com and we'll help you get a specific answer.

Laurie Frederiksen
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Note that the due date for partial year 2016 returns has changed. Partial year final returns are now due by the 15th day of the Third month following the date of termination.

In the past they've been due on the 15th day of the Fourth month following the date of termination.

The ability to prepare partial year federal returns is available in bivio from sometime in early to mid-May until the end of December.

Laurie Frederiksen
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Thank you all for the valuable information provided. I sent a question to support @bivio.com but got no response so decided to ask club cafe. Our subscription will end feb 15 2017 so I believe if we file the final tax within 4 months then we will not have to renew next year thank you all very much.
Our club decided to disband last year. We held the stocks until near the end of the year so we would be within the time limit for filing. Our subscription ended mid March so it worked quite well. My only caution is that the tax program is not released until February. Make sure you have enough time left on your subscription to get the taxes done. Contact bivio about extending the program for a month if that is necessary to make sure there are no loose ends. They were most helpful throughout the years we were a club.

Marcia Meltzer, former treasurer

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Joy Russell <jmariap50@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you all for the valuable information provided. I sent a question to support @bivio.com but got no response so decided to ask club cafe. Our subscription will end feb 15 2017 so I believe if we file the final tax within 4 months then we will not have to renew next year thank you all very much.

I agree with Marcia. Rarely is the tax program released in the first two weeks of February. Make sure that you talk to Bivio about it.

John


On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:23 PM, Marcia Meltzer <marciainmd@gmail.com> wrote:


Our club decided to disband last year.  We held the stocks until near the end of the year so we would be within the time limit for filing. Our subscription ended mid March so it worked quite well.  My only caution is that the tax program is not released until February.  Make sure you have enough time left on your subscription to get the taxes done. Contact bivio about extending the program for a month if that is necessary to make sure there are no loose ends.  They were most helpful throughout the years we were a club.

Marcia Meltzer, former treasurer

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Joy Russell <jmariap50@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you all for the valuable information provided. I sent a question to support @bivio.com but got no response so decided to ask club cafe.  Our subscription will end feb 15 2017 so I believe if we file the final tax within 4 months then we will not have to renew next year thank you all very much.



Just to clarify.

The final year tax return is due by the 15th day of the third month following the date of termination.

Unless your termination date is 12/31/2016, the final return will be a partial year return. The ability to prepare the federal partial year return is available in bivio from early to mid-May until the end of December.

Because of this, if you are disbanding during the year, the release date of the regular tax program is a moot point.

Laurie Frederiksen
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www.bivio.com

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