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  • Product: SurePrep
  • Sub-Product: TaxCaddy
  • Subject: Documents

Customized Fillable Forms

You can let your clients complete custom fillable forms for each document request item supported by SurePrep. You can either create and send your clients a DRL (Document Request List) or manually request the document from the client profile. You and your clients will then have the option to either complete a fillable form or upload a document to address the requested document.
note
Customized Fillable Forms are only sent to the clients if the tax application has proforma data for the selected category (that is, DRL).
Follow these steps to enable Customized Fillable Forms:
  1. Sign in to TaxCaddy.
  2. Select
    Administrative
    , then select
    Document Request List
    .
    note
    Only users with Administrative permissions have access to the
    Document Request List
    .
    Select Administrative, then select Document Request List
  3. Select the
    Tax Year
    .
    TAX YEAR dropdown
  4. Customized Fillable Form category options appear on the right column.
    Select
    Yes
     to enable the option to address the document request by completing a fillable form.
    Select
    No
     to turn off the option to address the document request by completing a fillable form.
    Point to the
    Information
     Information icon icon to learn more about the consolidated Itemized Deductions category.
    Configure your fillable form settings
Customized Fillable Forms Categories
List of Customized Fillable Forms you can set
OFF
/
ON
:
Categories
Supported tax application
Schedule C
Yes
Schedule E
Yes
Schedule F
Yes
Charitable Contributions
Yes
Non-Cash Contributions
Yes
1098s (Home Mortgage Interest)
(OFF by default)
Yes
Other Interest Expenses
Yes
Medical Expenses
Yes
Real Estate Taxes
Yes
DMV Fees and Taxes
Yes
Other Taxes
Yes
Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts
(OFF by default)
CCH Axcess Tax
When completing a fillable form, certain tax year data may be auto-populated based on the tax application.
Current year and prior year columns
note
After sending your client their fillable PDF with the prior year amounts auto-populated, ensure that your client is making updates to the current year rather than updating the prior year's values.
Refer to the following table to determine if TaxCaddy auto-populates Customized Fillable Forms for your tax application:
Tax application
Auto-populates
GoSystem Tax RS
CCH Axcess Tax
Current year and prior year data (except Foreign Bank Account).
Current year = Identifier/description fields
Prior year = amounts from last year
Other tax application (for example, UltraTax, Lacerte)
Doesn’t auto-populate prior year data.
Current year and prior year columns in the document viewer
note
  • Auto-populate fields only auto-populate if the tax application is supported and the client's tax return has identifier fields with values in them (for example, “Jills Craft Shop” has a prior year amount of $47,500). To auto-populate, all the identifier fields must have (prior year) information in the client's tax return in the tax application. If identifier fields are incomplete/missing, then the user has to manually enter the data in the fillable forms.
  • Fillable Forms appear if there is data associated with the entity in the tax application's proforma from the previous year.Example: Schedule C (Business Income) for 'ABC' is in the tax application, however, if the required identifier fields are not available in the tax application then a fillable form won’t appear for the 'ABC' entity.
Additionally, Customized Fillable Forms with the
Information
Information icon icon will group each entity in that category into a single request as a consolidated itemized deduction (CCH Axcess Tax and GoSystem Tax RS).
Configure your fillable form settings
Fillable forms in the Requested Items
note
For Lacerte and UltraTax, changing the
Itemized Deduction
 and
Foreign Bank
 categories to
ON
 won’t include Customized Fillable Forms in the client's DRL. Those categories will still appear as individual requests.
If you selected
Yes
 and there is proforma data in the tax application, then clients will receive the Customized Fillable Forms after you create and send the DRL.
Select SEND DRL from the Manage Clients menu
note
If the DRL was created before this option was enabled, then clients won’t receive the Customized Fillable Forms. You need to reset DRL and create it again before sending it to the client.
You can also manually request a document from the client profile. However, only categories that allow fillable forms will appear as fillable forms when you create a request.
Select Upload to upload a fillable form to a necessary category
You and your clients can then address the document request by completing the fillable form or uploading the relevant document.
note
Once your client signs or reviews a fillable form in TaxCaddy, they’ll no longer be able to make changes to the contents of the document.
Upload and Complete Form options for a fillable form

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