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Thank you, Lynn, I found this in Pub 523: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p523/ar02.html#en_US_2014_publink10009003 "Home Moved to New Location If you move your home from the land it was on, that land no longer counts as part of your home. For example, if you move a mobile home to a new lot and sell the old lot, you cannot treat the sale of the old lot as the sale of your home." However, this seems to be only one (unusual) transaction, and NOT moving house, THEN selling land, you know?

I could have died.

Well, I would like to say I was just trying to help her learn a life lesson, but I was really out of forms, and don't be comin in here in your tank top and tan in January like you all that...

Plus my daughter did the grocery shopping and I have been drinking decaf for two days and just figured it out.

Client built principal residence 1998 on six acres tract. Lives there still. State is buying her out for road construction purposes. State paid off her mortgage 2014, $90,000. She is moving house a couple miles down the road to another site in 2015. She says state is to give her another $85,000 in 2015 after she gets house moved. Is this a sale of principal residence for $90,000 in 2014? $175,000 in 2014? $175,000 in 2015? Divide it up and sale of residence in 2014, land in 2015? Since she's keeping the house, is it sale of land only and entire gain is taxable? The sale price was the same whether she moves the house or the state dozes it. It seems to me at least some of this is excludable, maybe all, and she is getting a new residence whose cost is the moving expense and new site prep. But OMG it's April.

* impression I am never, ever going to get a post right on the first try.

Well, there ya go. I once had a young lady body builder come in my office on January 31 wanting 1099-Misc Forms to fill out for her client. I got the impressive I was the first person on earth to tell her I was out of forms and not offer to take her to Staples and purchase forms for her.

Yeah, that's whacha gotta do, but it takes me forever to figure out how to see the box. It's torture and I'm telling you, I almost went to the mailbox this time. A girl can only take so much.

Oh, silly, you are the one who bought me that gum. Fruit Stripe, best 15 seconds of flavor of your entire life, and the tattoos can't be beat.

OK, but I'll keep it on the down low, cause if I don't it'll be just like when you're ten and you open a pack of gum: BAM! Thirty-two instant friends...

Thank God. I love you, Margaret. I'm not going to the mailbox now.

You have to visit the southern US, Ron.

Everytime there is an update, it takes me forever to figure out how to see the top of the ATX page again. No, it's not an emergency. Yes, I am drawing a blank and might go to the mailbox and never come back. Nevermind, got it, don't ask me how. I don't even know. Grrrrrr.

I bet that dog was not even a member of the household all year. Probably goes door to door selling his DOB and SSN to tax cheaters. Well, we are on to to you, Rover.

I don't see any reason to depreciate those items. They don't have a useful life of more than a year. At least at my place they don't. Maybe the preparer was trying to be ultra conservative or something because he was nervous about a loss. I have seen many strange things on depreciation schedules myself. If IRS is paying attention to those, I sure can't tell it.

Yep, and you could even tell her, "Here are columns for groceries, house payments, personal utilities, boat slip, DirecTV, Zappos shoes, etc." The less technology the better for some folks, in my opinion.

This guy has help with benefits. What could go wrong?

My thinking is you will never get anything accurate out of this particular person unless some serious training and/or arm twisting occurs. Software, spreadsheet, columnar pad, legal pad, stationary with stickers. It ain't gonna matter. Not a whole hell lot. :)

Oops, Margaret CPA not mcb39. I love them both, so I get them mixed up. Just like we do our kids, right?

That's what I would do, but others will say mail it before April 15 and write in something across the top and it'll count as original. Sorry, search didn't turn up the thread I wanted. It was by mcb39 about the new 3115 regs, I think. I personally would do the 1040-X, if nothing else, so the client realizes it's a PITA to be changing things now.

Very sorry about this, Jack. Hang in there, and yes, we are all here for you. Thinking about and praying for you!

In 20 years, nobody has ever had the same W-2 income as last year. She's not the first, either.

This is why I love you, Tom. SALY is indeed a bitch. Especially on a W-2.

Well, here's a new one. Me: "Taxpayer, did you not work for Cumberland County school system in 2014? I don't see a W-2 here." TP: "Oh, is it not there?" (Uh, that's what I just said.) "It should be the same as last year." Riiiiight.

I know, hahaha, I was going, "And they think I'm inappropriate..."