Tax Forms and Schedules
Tax Acronyms
Due Dates
Income Types (Interest/ Dividends/credits)
Best Practices/Checklist
200

Itemized Deductions

What is Schedule A?

200

PBC

What is Provided By Client? 

200

Extended due date of Form 1040 for the 2024 tax year 

What is 10/15/2025?

200
This type of interest income is taxable for federal and non-taxable for CA

What is U.S Treasury?

200

Term used to describe adding initials to workpapers immediately after completion

What is Sign Off?

400

Interest & Ordinary Dividends

What is Schedule B?

400

HMI

What is Home Mortgage Interest?

400

Original due date of Form 1040 for the 2024 tax year

What is 4/15/2025?

400

This type of adjustment decreases capital gain and increase interest income

What is accrued market discount?

400

The workpaper format of an email relied on for the tax return

What is PDF?

600

DAILY DOUBLE

tax form & Line number for all short-term gains for which basis was reported to the IRS and for which you have no adjustments

600

OID

What is Original Issue Discount?

600

Original Due date of 2025 Q2 1040-ES

What is 6/15/2025?

600

DAILY DOUBLE

If a taxpayer materially participates in a business reported on Schedule K-1 (Form 1065), how should the ordinary business income reported on line 1 be classified on Form 1040?

600

Original tax return draft is marked this after updated draft is printed

What is Superseded (SS)?

800

California Adjustments for Individual Taxpayers

What is Schedule CA (540)?

800

QBI

What is Qualified Business Income?

800

Original Due date of 2025 Q3 1040-ES

What is 9/15/2025?

800

This type of interest income is Nontaxable for Federal but taxable for CA

What is non-california municipal bond?

800

Workpaper index that ties back to tax return for payments made

What is O-01?

1000

Pass-Through Entity Elective Tax Calculation

What is CA Form 3804?

1000

AGI

What is Adjusted Gross Income? 

1000

Orginal Due date of 2025 Q4 1040-ES

What is 1/15/2026?

1000

If PTE Credit is more than tax liability, how many years can we carry forward the unused amount

What is 5 Years?

1000

The "envelope analogy" and "two-sided" are terms used to describe this

What is Workpaper Referencing?

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