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Winter Break Work for VITAStep-by-Step Instructions for Accessing Link ‘N Learn Certification
Tests and Practice Lab
As always, email us at [email protected] if you have any questions :)
Where your certification tests are
Practice Lab is here. This is where you will be entering information in from the practice scenarios. This is where the tax forms and the online interview are.
The 3 exams we are taking
Check this box
Certification Tests
When taking the certification exams, you can save and exit the test and come back to it later.
Password: learntwo
Accessing & How to Use Practice Lab
User ID is your 6-digit number you received when you first made an account. This is a VERY IMPORTANT NUMBER!! If you absolutely cannot find your number, you will have to create another account and get another ID.. Don’t lose the new one.
Practice Lab
Click here to begin a new return Click here to
open a previously saved return
Practice Lab
This example shows what you will enter for the Warren/Shirley Graves Basic Scenario on pg. 27 of Pub 6744. Warren’s SSN is 130-XX-XXXX, so you enter 130 followed by your 6 digit user ID (that very important number)
Then click ‘Interview’
Practice Lab
Based on the information provided in the ‘Notes’ section and on their Intake sheet, fill out all of the interview questions in this side column
Once you click ‘Finish’, you will be redirected to the tax form itself
Practice Lab
Forms in red mean there is some important information missing. Click on the red form and then find the red line and fill in the information.
You can go switch back and forth from the Interview to Tax Forms
Save all the returns you complete out of Pub 6744!
Practice Lab
Homework for the BreakComplete tax forms for Basic Scenarios 7 and 8 (Warren/Shirley Graves on pg. 27 and Teresa Martin on pg. 36)
- Fill out all red lines to the best of your ability; make sure you have looked through the table of contents/tabs of Pub 4012 to address concepts new to you.
- SAVE BOTH RETURNS!! We will be going over them in class.- Based on your work, try to answer the basic test questions up to #25.
Bonus: If you would like, you can begin the tax form for the last scenario (Evan James Swift, pg. 45), which will be homework for the next meeting. This is the last scenario and last 4 questions on the basic exam!!