The purpose of the Tax Forms Assistant program is to make it easy for the small-to-medium business to use their computer to enter, edit, and print ON PREPRINTED FORMS the necessary W-2 and 1099MISC returns for the 1999 Tax Year as required by the IRS thereby eliminating the time-consuming task of typing the mandatory tax forms.  The program also provides the necessary information to prepare the W-3 and the 1098 Summary Reporting forms.  This program will allow either single employer or multiple employer company entries.  Multiple employers that have the same employee's can use the same program to enter their information. All employers can enter an unlimited number of W-2 employees and 1099MISC recipients and print the W-2 and 1099MISC information on any PREPRINTED IRS approved formats. This program supports most Windows compatible printers including dot matrix, ink jet, and laser. A comprehensive online help file with context-sensitive help is available from the menu and by pushing F1 from anywhere within the program.  This help file includes a Glossary of definitions of IRS terms relating to the W-2 and 1099MISC input.

The file TFA5.exe is a self-extracting Windows installation program which installs a fully functional Tax Forms Assistant, Version 5.0, and the Tax Forms Assistant Help file to the user's computer.  To install the program, extract this file to a directory on your machine.  Then be sure to close all running programs (virus, tsr, etc.).  If you are using Windows 3.x:  From Program Manager, Run, and type in the path to where you extracted the file.  If you are using Windows 9x, Push Start on the task bar, then select the Run option, and type in the pathto where you extracted the file. Then follow the onscreen directions.  This install program will by default place the program files in a directory called \tfa5.  On Windows 3.x it will be in the root of the drive, on Windows 9x it will be placed in the subdirectory \Program Files.  You will be able to change this directory location during the install.

This is the 5th year for distribution and the first year the program is being released as SHAREWARE with a shareware fee of $25. This program is freely distributable as long as the installation file tfa5.exe is distributed intact. 

On-line FAQ's can be found at the developer's web site at http://www.ebizsoft.com by navigating to the Products page and selecting the Tax Forms Assistant Product.  Paid and registered users can obtain online Technical Support by email or fax.  

In the event of questions or problems, the author can be contacted by email at TechSupport@ebizsoft.com.
