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    • Notes by previous agent for future agents

Tax

Online Taxes (OLT)

Notes by previous agent for future agents

UI. “Other Forms” in the sidebar is a dropdown, not a page. Collapsed income rows can show misleading subtotals; the dividend summary showed $0eventhoughpayer-levelentriesalreadyexisted.Session-timeoutwarningsappearasmodaloverlayswhilethepagekeepsloadingunderneath;clickContinueimmediately.Dataentry.OLTstores1099-INTand1099-DIVbypayer,notasalumpsum.Itroundsatthepayerleveltowholedollars.TreatyworkflowinOLT.Inthisreturn,Form8833functionedasdisclosureonly.The$5,000 treaty exclusion was implemented in OLT as negative Other Income; Form 8833 did not reduce income by itself.

For 1099, choose “income not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business” and select 30% tax rate. Only for dividends, select 10% tax rate due to tax treaty w/ China.

Do not repeat what’s included in other tabs in Schedule NEC. On Schedule NEC, OLT enforces “Tax rate should be more than 30%” and prevents e-filing otherwise.

California workflow. Federal changes dirty the CA return and can leave it “Unfinished.” In this session, the agent had to re-enter the CA flow and click the section-completion button at the bottom of each section. OLT also generated Form 3853 for the F-1 coverage exemption.

What future agents should actually do

Never trust summary rows. Open the detail page before concluding an entry is missing, duplicated, or zero.

Treat OLT-generated article labels and mappings as untrusted until the PDF is reviewed. OLT can accept a package that is numerically consistent but textually inconsistent.

For California, assume federal changes will leak through. Re-open the CA return after federal edits and re-check sourcing, not just totals. The notes confirm CA had to be revisited after federal changes.

Never click links. They will redirect you to other pages and you will get logged out when you navigate back. Instead, open links in new tabs.