Gail in Virginia

I'll take my pints anywhere I can get them.

Excellent response! We have to stand up for ourselves - no one else will if we don't. NON-VOTING POST

Payroll isn't an issue - he is basically a one man operation. But thanks for the info about TN corp tax and the links, Rita and Edsel!

I have a client, Virginia S-Corp, who did about $25,000 gross of construction in Tennessee this past year. I would not worry about individual taxes but know nothing about TN corporate taxes. Does he have a filing requirement for Tennessee?

I am so sorry, Judy. This has been a tough season for me so far also, so you have my deepest sympathy. I am glad that I read this near the end of the day, so I can shed a tear for you and for the family of that young woman and hopefully not get caught by a client. We do get attached to our clients, or at least I do, and this is the hard way to lose them. And Catherine - love you back, and all my other friends in this community!

Virginia tends to be sticky about this as well. They want proof that you have changed your state of residence and are not just domiciled out of the country. Changing drivers license, using a different state address on the federal return, changing voter registration - all of these things can be used to indicate you are actually changing your state of residence. Whether or not some bureaucrat in a state department of taxation will accept that is another kettle of fish entirely.

That's why the clients that drop off the paperwork with a phone number where they can actually be reached (or even better, an email address!) are my favorites. Watching them open their mail and try to puzzle out what they have, and remember what they should have, while amusing is a HUGE waste of time. I can slit it open and throw away the envelopes in half them time, and I probably know more about what they are missing than they do if we have done their returns for a year or two. On the other hand, if they were good at this stuff they would not be paying me the (cough, cough) big bucks.

I would think the only way that the employer would report it is as part of their employee's w-2 wages.

I am so glad that I am not locked in either room with either group.

But I used to love multiplying on an adding machine by holding the plus bar down long enough to "add" for each place, putting an extra zero on the end as needed. Miss that sound. Calculators aren't nearly as much fun.

But it would not hurt for her to just politely tell him that he should not report alimony on a 1099, and that if he is concerned that former spouse will have records showing a different amount, he is welcome to send her a letter stating what his records show. Then he will still do whatever he wants, and so will she. That is, if they are being polite to one another and can speak without an arbitrator.

The problem with Pacun's statement is that they aren't going to be getting refunds from the state - they will owe. So it is you can pay me $200 to amend (more like $100 in my neck of the woods) and you will owe the state of Virignia an extra $10. Or you can wait and let them bill you the tax plus penalty and interest, which will probably be between $15 and $20 depending on when they get around to noticing.

I haven't really had time to think about this latest revenue enhancement after the fact change in tax law. I have a few clients that itemize and actually use some of their medical, but I have not gone back and looked at them yet. Virginia is more sensitive about a few dollars than the federal, so I may use a cut off of $10 tax (maybe $5) but I haven't really thought about it yet.

I find this discussion fascinating. We use filing cabinets, have no cleaning crew, and an alarm on the office. We log off computers that aren't in use at the time. But I still think a determined thief will find a way.

If him claiming all of the expenses results in her being eligible for EITC, I would really hesitate to do the return that way. If it is just a matter of him being in a higher bracket and receiving more benefit from the expenses, maybe.

What if you steal something Christmas Eve, and can't return it until after the New Year?

No aunts? I guess this isn't a picnic.

That ought to cover it!!

I think you are okay. The Simple contribution comes out of box 1, but not out of box 3 and 5. The health insurance comes out of boxes 3 and 5 but not out of box 1, because he owns more than 5%. However, since this is a partnership, why is he getting a W2?

Aunt may be providing over half of support if they live in Aunt's house and Aunt provides food. Child's money may be going partially into savings account which does not count towards support. But you should actually run some numbers to be sure Aunt can claim child as dependent.

You can do this! I am giving advice on how because I took it back when it was paper and so I don't know that what I observed still holds true. But I have confidence in you!

By any chance, was the property originally bought for personal use and later converted to business use? And was the depreciation based on FMV at the time it was converted to business use from personal?

I like the gold star myself. Not so sure about being a tax "babe".

Have you tried synchronizing your e-files? I haven't used ATX for a while, but they used to have customer service utilities under support that allowed you to synchronize with the EFC and that would sometimes change a status so that you could work with the return.

ProSeries will do a tax plan for federal but not for state. On clients that itemize normally, but will not with the new, improved standard deduction on the federal, the federal taxes might go up or down by less than $1,000 either way. However, in Virginia if you don't itemize federal you can't itemize state, so changing to the same old standard deduction on Virginia might result in several dollars of tax. I don't have time for this now - but this is the only time I see most of these people!