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1040

Pernee for
individual returns

Hundreds of 1040s a season, each with its own history of elections, carryovers and client quirks. Pernee keeps all of it on hand, so preparers start every return where last year left off.

An individual return is rarely about this year alone. It is the capital loss carried from 2022, the estimate a client always forgets, and the note a reviewer left about the rental.

From organizer to signature,
with last year in view

01

Start with last year’s context

Before a preparer opens the file, Pernee pulls the prior-year return, carryovers and every review comment left on it.

  • Capital loss, passive loss and charitable carryovers
  • Prior-year review comments on the same lines
  • Elections and positions taken, with who signed off

Why did we make the Section 754 election for Ridgeline in 2024, and who signed off on how the step-up was allocated?

Firm memoryRecalled 5 items · 9s

The firm made the election because Harbor Point LP bought a 12% Class A interest from Aldine Partners for $4.1M more than its share of inside basis. Without it, Harbor Point would be taxed on gain it had already paid for.14

A. Morgan signed the position memo on February 18, 2025. Her review asked for the Section 743(b) step-up to be allocated to the portfolio investments under the residual method, not to goodwill at the fund level.12

Mark Ellison questioned the election in March because it cannot be revoked. The team kept it after showing that two more transfers were expected in 2025.3

Both transfers closed. The 2025 return needs a new Section 743(b) adjustment for each, and the 2024 election already covers them.5

Not found in your sources. No record of who approved the Harbor Point side letter terms.

Memory · Ridgeline

  1. 1Position memo · Section 754 election 2024Position · signed by A. Morgan · Feb 18, 2025
  2. 2Review notes 2024 · A. MorganReview · 5 notes
  3. 3Email · Mark Ellison, CFOCorrespondence · Mar 12, 2025
  4. 42024 Form 1065 · Statement 3Vault · as filed
  5. 5Partner transfer log 2025Vault · Source documents
02

Chase the documents that are missing

Pernee tracks what each client sent against what came in last year, and drafts the follow-up when a W-2, 1099 or K-1 is late.

  • Expected documents built from last year’s return
  • Late K-1s flagged before they hold up the return
  • Every chase a draft for you to send

An animation of connecting Microsoft 365, then 12 files appearing in an all-files list, each matched to a client and filed into that client's binder folders.

03

Review before the reviewer does

Each draft is checked for completeness, math, prior-year consistency and likely rejects, so review time goes to judgment.

  • Changes from last year explained line by line
  • Estimated payments and overpayments tied out
  • A signer brief on what moved and why

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Spaces

A Space holds the documents, the workpapers, the review history and the outstanding asks together — and tells you honestly how far from ready it is.

Agents

Purpose-built agents pull the firm's own precedent into a draft memo, response or checklist. Every claim carries its source, and every draft waits for a person to approve.

Vault

One client's files in one place, in the firm's own folders. The bytes stay in the system that owns them — what Pernee keeps is where each file is, and the text of what it has read.

Memory

Pernee keeps why a position was taken, who signed it and what it was questioned on — and brings it back the season it matters.

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