GeneInAlabama

Thanks KC. Sometimes, I'm a little slow, which at my age is OK.

His 15th message is a word anagram for, The business posting on this Board has no humor, which in this I see "to fail." ???

I have seen similar jokes and cartoons posted in IRS offices. They laugh along with the rest of us.

I started using the form last year, but in March of this year, they changed the wording so that most clients wouldn't understand what is being said.

I thought he was in the Bat Cave in the other picture. Do you suppose we have learned his true identity?

<Maybe a hanging would help> You or someone else?

How can we buy wide screen TVs made in China or wherever, if they keep taking our stimulus payment for back taxes and penalties?

The first year I used ATX was for 1993 returns. I had to buy Microsoft Excel to use the program. I believe it was 1994 or 1995 that the the ATX program became a stand alone program. ATX was a BIG improvement for me because I had been during returns manually until then.

I'm not familiar with TRX, but one time when I started to do a 1065 with ATX, I opened a 1065 WORKSHEET for a 1040 instead of a form 1065. Every time I clicked on something, it would open a 1040. It took a while before I realized what was happening. Just a thought.

Yeah, and the LUCKY one will get theirs later.!

How can 2 separate entities file a sales tax report on the same form? Sounds like the so called partnership was just an extension of his first restaurant which is a sole proprietorship. Like everyone else has said, I wouldn't do ANYTHING until I saw the court papers.

Whew, that sure is a relief. I hope to get a whole lot older.

Ya'll keep talking about being aging baby boomers. I'm too old to be a baby boomer. Does that mean I'm through aging?

I have never seen a letter from the IRS that didn't show a year and a social security number. This looks suspicious to me. I too have filed a number of returns where the primary taxpayer was deceased and listed them as primary. I have never had a problem with that.

If they file before they get the SSN for the child, I don't think they would get the $300 rebate for the child. I would wait.

I have been using the March 15th date for a couple of years in my annual letter I send to my clients but I didn't word it as well as you did. It really does make a difference. The ones that come in after March 15th expect that they may have to file an extension and I do encourage extensions. Extensions make it possible to spread your work out over 9 months instead of 3 months and that really reduces the stress level. It also extends the time that I can eat steak instead of beans.

As for the 1040, a signature is no longer requiered as long as your name is printed on the return and the software automatically does that for you. I imagine the 1041 is the same way. I have never done a 1041. And as far as the capital gains problem. Don't let her use that as an excuse not to pay you for the work you have done. She OWES you for that.

The ones I filed yesterday afternoon showed as accepted this morning. The ones I filed last night still show validated.

I just got a call from a partner of a partnership I prepared. His stepmother is preparing his personal return. She used to work for HRB and is using TurboTax to file his return. HE SAID SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE K1 THAT I GAVE HIM because when his mother entered it in her program, the $25,000 loss didn't change his income but showed it being rolled over to 2008. I tried to tell him that there was probably a box in her program that was either checked or unchecked making it appear to be a passive activity. I have noticed over the years that HRB preparers are quick to point out errors or perceived errors of other preparers. I guess that is something HRB teaches them to do.

Exactly right!

Thanks Ann and Gerald. I was beginning to think we had lost the ability to get an immediate EIN. Wonder why the IRS has such a narrow window for getting the number. You would think they would at least give you some kind of message telling you what hours the site was available. Even though I worked over 15 years for the federal government, I never learned to think government. I guess my mind just doesn't work in the same channels.

I tried last week to go the IRS website to get an immediate EIN and got a message that Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. Again tonight, I got the same message. Is that service no longer available? Has it been moved? Anyone know?

I think if I were the employee, I would tell my boss that I would do the contract job from my home. That would change things.

I think you have to go DIRECTLY from the first job to the second job to count the mileage.

I saw a case once where a taxpayer owed quite a bit but had absolutely nothing to pay the tax that was owed. The collections officer marked it uncollectable and put it on the back burner. Two or three years later, they checked with him again and determined that it was still uncollectable. Nothing else was heard from it. After ten years the statue of limitations runs out (of course in this case, 10 years is a lifetime). I don't believe they would take his home but they might take most of the 30 acres. You know the saying that you can't get blood out of a turnip. This may be a turnip.