Gail in Virginia

I think that is justifiable as self-defense!

We hope. With all the changes, possibly early February if you feeling pessimistic. Never thought I would be more pessimistic than Jack.

I replaced the computer I use at the office this year. The one I replaced had been used since 2009, and I never shut it down. I did have to replace the power supply on it after about 2 years, but I think it was because the power supply in it was bad from the beginning and just got worse until we could diagnose the problem. That computer was one my son built for me when he was in high school. My new one is just an off the shelf Dell.

Congratulations! I hope everything is smooth sailing from here on out!

If you are doing the full 990, then Part XI on page 12 is the reconciliation. Line 8 or Line 9 would be the place to put changes to beginning balances that are necessary to reconcile the books, and then they would be explained in Schedule O. I suspect that if the change is relatively minor, you could get away with changing the beginning balances but I would do it this way so there is a record that it did not reconcile and you are adjusting it, with an explanation if you have one.

I am so jealous!

I liked the music too but every time I was getting in to the music they would interrupt to tell me my call was important and that if I hung up and called back it would increase my wait time. I knew that.

I agree with Rita mostly. There are people on here whose posts I sometimes ignore (or gloss over really quickly). But there is no one on here who has annoyed me to the point that I have blocked them (yet.) And it is the personality of the people on this board that keep me coming back - especially during the off season. Kind of nice to know the block feature is there if I really need it. Now if only there were a feature to bring back some of the posters who left that I really enjoyed. Of course, some of them may have moved where there is no internet.

Actually, I think Sara meant the 1999 Connecticut form W-4P. Which if I Google, I can get a copy here https://www.ct.gov/drs/lib/drs/forms/1999forms/withholding/ct-w4p.pdf But the top answer is still the 2018 form here http://www.ct.gov/drs/lib/drs/forms/1-2018/wth/2018-ct-w4p.pdf And there is a HUGE difference.

And no exemption for the child or spouse if they work for a corporation, partnership or estate/trust even if you control the entity EXCEPT if all the partners are parents of the child, then the partnership doesn't prevent the child from being exempt. They probably could make this more confusing if they tried. Maybe.

I am not sure I agree with the majority. Do you have any way of knowing what the person covering S-corps and sole proprietors is covering? If they go before you, and spend the bulk of their time covering QBI, you might be rehashing a lot of the same material. Or not. There are a ton of details in this new law, and I am afraid some of those details are really going to catch us by surprise if everyone spends all of the CE time talking about the QBID.

I would announce I had won, throw a huge party, pay my church's debt on our new construction, and then enter the witness protection program - surely with that much money I can bribe my way in.

And in some states you have up to a year to claim lottery prizes, which should give you plenty of time. I think the least amount of time is 90 days. Make people wonder who won.

Sounds like everything went well - just keep it going in that direction!

As far as I am concerned, you win!

I think Medlin is making a good point here about information you don't have not being used against you. Once we store something electr5onically we tend to keep it FOREVER. Is that really a wise course? Should we be looking for a timeline to delete files as well as the old timelines for destroying files?

Happy Anniversary!

But it takes the new rascals a little time to catch on to how to be a REAL rascal. They start out as amateur rascals usually.

Perhaps we can print it on toilet paper, and we all know what to do with that.....

Can I answer E? There should be some depreciation.....

As Judy said, it really depends on the income. I have a client who lives in the US but is a Canadian citizen. Sorting his paperwork can be a real challenge. Some of his dividends come through an Edward Jones brokerage account in Canada, and get reported on an NR4 for Canada, AND on a 1099DIV for US. And some of the NR4s are in USD and some CAD. I don't think he understands how confusing this can be and why I charge him as much as I do. But he keeps sending his stuff to me because I am the first preparer that even asked if he had foreign accounts and started him doing his FBAR.

I hope none of my client's ever see that - I am sure they would think that is sufficient. They already think they did not take any income from the company because all they did was pay their bills.

I was, until the phone spammers learned to spoof actual numbers. I have had numbers come up on caller id, complete with name, as someone I know only to answer the phone and find that is not the person placing the call. Sometimes it will appear that a local business is calling but lo and behold it is not. I am to the point at home where I prefer to let the call go to voice mail and if someone is really there, I will call them back. But it is worse when I have client's return calls that we never made and I know that my number is being spoofed to annoy local people. Edsel is right - as long as there is money to be made with relatively no downside risk, this is only going to get worse.

My husband recorded the telephone company's statement "I'm sorry, but the number you have reached is no longer in service. If you feel that you have received this message in error, please hang up and dial" whatever it is. Now, whenever a number calls that he doesn't want to talk to he plays that recording for them, complete with tones, as soon as he answers. I don't know if we are actually getting fewer calls, but he is having a good time and thinks the calls are going down. And I am not going to interfere with his fun.

Sometimes my problem is that I learned something so thoroughly years ago, and I was unaware (or forgot!) that it changed. Always a good idea to check to make sure what you KNOW is actually correct.