RitaB

They don't want a good preparer, so that'll work out great.

Just once I want the little message to say, "Close enough."

Yes, this is why God made Turbo Tax. This ship kind of advanced planning is bullship above my pay grade. We were about to part ways anyway. It really could not have gone better.

Hahahaha, no, I am so happy to be rid of them. And they fired themselves. Win/win. And good luck finding a preparer now.

They won't anyway. You better hold your head up and apologize when you're wrong. And not take any ship from anybody.

Well, you might ask him how entering $2,000 on Line 12 and removing it on Line 32 would help. Seriously, I would ask.

I love neighbors and friends that use me when they need me. /s I have turned away very few people in 24 years, but I declined to take back two clients in two days this week. One was a long time friend who got mad at me last year for telling them I have 10 weeks to make a living and cannot re-do your return every year because you forgot something [you can't manage your W-4 and are making up ship for your side business]. She has not spoken to me in a year and her husband made her ask if they could bring in their stuff. I apologized at the time for my attitude, I apologized again Sunday night when she texted, but politely told her no. I have been smiling ever since.

I don't understand the use of the word "tried" here. Is she saying she had business income when she did not? Or is she reporting income that she always has and normally does not report? I may have this all wrong, and if so I apologize. If I'm not wrong, I would never let a client decide what income to report, or suggest what income to report. Besides the obvious (it's wrong), I would not want that to be told, and it will be. They made some bad moves and do not qualify for a credit that a lot of people didn't qualify for. I'd try to keep emotion out of it and just reconcile the income and taxes and credits. You might try MFS. It's not your fault that they didn't think taking distributions would increase income. It's also not your fault that the price of health insurance is obscene. Tax pros can't make it affordable. Try not to worry about it, neighbor or not.

Sssssssshhhhhhhh

I'm just glad my clients run copies of the five pages of instructions and the page intentionally left blank when they run the copies of the 1099s for me. You know, since I can't be trusted with originals and may not know what I'm doing.

I'll leave it to Chris (and Tom):

I thought about you all yesterday, we did the Chris Tomlin Amazing Grace / My Chains are Gone song.

So this happened in my hometown. Three minute break guys! (Little boy in blue shirt might not have had as much joy as others, never mind.)

I'm going to cut out carbs. (Slices pie).

I found this on the IRS calculator. Thanks for the question; I learned something. What Income Should You Include for Determining Your Optional State & Local Sales Tax Deduction? Your income is the amount shown on your Form 1040, "Adjusted Gross Income" line, plus any nontaxable items, such as the following: Tax-exempt interest Veterans' benefits Nontaxable combat pay Workers' compensation Nontaxable part of social security and railroad retirement benefits Nontaxable part of IRA, pension, or annuity distributions. Do not include rollovers Public assistance payments And any other nontaxable items

As John Crist says: Work hard. Stay humble. Talk about it all day.

This was me listening to my precious friend talk for an hour on Friday afternoon:

My first thought was that this preparer turns out a lot of incorrect returns. He claims this is his average day. My last thought is that he turns out a lot of incorrect returns. Yesterday I managed to do six returns and talk to eight people in eleven hours, just me. Word, @ILLMAS. I had a fun conversation with a client about SNL and "Land Shark!" (He yelled that coming in the door.} He said SNL made more sense when he smoked marijuana. Also listened to a precious friend talk for one hour about the stress her family is under going thru a very terrible, terrible messy thing. I vacuumed the waiting area. Dishes are still in the kitchen area, but I'll get them today. My life is so good. I'll stick to it.

Despite only claiming 30k of his total income, he's still a grate righter and grammartician. Speler. All that.

I was going for clever street talk savvy there.

I was texting my very good friend, who is a pastor and is also farming now. too. I have read him the riot act about hobby losses (turns out he made money, I knew something was fishy with my other farmers). Anyway I asked him what the excavation was for. He replied, "Barn construction." Then, "Legit."

* yer

In TN #6 reads, "Keep records for six years if you're lower than a snake's belly, you cheater."

I could do 15 of those. Not 16.