RitaB

You should be, Sunshine.

I said I was letting it go. Get off my back.

What were they doing incorrectly? It is hard to imagine a church not understanding clergy taxes (yuk, yuk), or a clergy member not being satisfied with the tax laws in place (totally serious on that one). I guess the problem is the senior pastor, and not your client in your case, though. I had a pastor come in yesterday with info to complete 2009 - 2012 returns and a note to call the church treasurer so he could explain housing allowance rules to me. Yeah, I'll get right on that. She also had an unopened, returned 2007 return, apparently the IRS PO Box was closed by the time she got around to mailing her return. It was returned in 2009, and she hadn't bothered to call or anything. I opened it, noted no check to IRS, gave her a new envelope, said, "Hey, you really ought to put a check in there for Caesar, Jesus said to do that, right?" She laughed, "Shut up, I know." I thought, "Oh, so you knoweth to doeth good, and doeth it not." But, I just let it go... I keep chanting that these days. Let it go. Let. It. Go.

In Return Manager, I enter the first few letters of the name in the "Find" box to find a return. I don't rollover till I am about to do a return. To see how many I have left, I count how many are in the stack(s). I don't count anybody who hasn't been thru the door yet. OK, pretty much what Ron said. I am a slow typist.

Yeah, anyone? I am still on 12.9.

What is most disturbing to me is that I would get 27 cents and four attorneys would make a million dollars. lol.

Don't you kinda think it'll be one of those deals where four attorneys make a million dollars, and each claimant gets 27 cents?

How bout that Amish Mafia????? LOL, is that the least believable show on TV or what? (Esther. Grrrr. Don't get me started on that floozy.) Well, Finding Bigfoot is right up there, too. Dude with a green light on his head: "Did you hear that???" Other dude with a green light on his head: "Hear what???"

I had a neighbor (not a kid, forgive the rabbit trail) drop off last Friday 15 minutes after closing time, I didn't care about that because I knew I would be there for five more hours, but he mentioned he was sorry about it. This guy never has his property tax amount, I tell him to find out what it was and call me. Guy: "Oh, I'll get call Angie at the bank and find out. (I don't know why it's not on his 1098, but it's not.) Is their number xxx-xxxx?" Me: "I don't know." Thinking: (OMG, are you kidding me?) Goes thru his phone till he finds the number. Calls bank, does not ask the one on the phone, must get the number from Angie. Talks to Angie for five minutes. Seems he used to date Angie, and they are still on good terms, perhaps because he is still carrying a #$%^ torch for her... She is doing great, going to nephew's birthday party tomorrow... THEN, he talked to ME for 10 minutes about our neighbor across the road who died and he had no idea he was even sick. Yeah, he was 92, but who knew? His fee went up, and I will never ask him for his property tax again.

Hahahaha, made me think of a poster I saw that said, "Why do they advertise toilet paper? Who is not buying this?"

OK, I have this situation as well. I am able to create the e-file, but the 4852 is NOT among the lucky winners on the list of e-filed forms. What do you think? Is ATX missing it? Surely IRS requires the form. It's not listed on the forms to attach to Form 8453. I haven't got time for the pain...

I am doing well now, not at first. And 12.8 killed me, I lost 60 returns, 18 of which had not been transmitted. I have my doubts about rollover and backup for this program. I am on 12.9 and not gonna rock the boat. I tried Drake, and I don't have what it takes to like it. The straw that broke the camel's back was the fact that bank information did not convert. And Drake wants the bank name. That may not seem like a big deal, and maybe nobody converts bank info, but entering and checking bank numbers is a big stressor for me. I am so happy when a client says, "Same bank info as last year." I mean really happy. I decided I would rather clean, eat, file, anything, while that hourglass spins than enter bank numbers. I will check out ProSeries in the summer, but I hope ATX gets it together.

The state's Department of Revenue might also be an option for recovering sales records. Cash may not have made it to the bank. (I know it may not have made it to the Sales Tax Return, either.)

Mine was a church friend and ATX. Maybe 2000? Anyway, it seemed like quite an ordeal at the time, complete with a lot of stress sweat. And guess what? This year, he sends me a Facebook message, after I told him how miserable my issues were with software: "Hey, just wondering how our return is looking." I wanted to punch him in the stomach. Good times.

I got you all beat. Last month, I had two raccoons fighting (or something, I don't let my mind go there) under my building and they dislodged a sewer pipe. That was a bad day. Only in Tennessee, right?

Are you eating? Is it cardboard? Does it stink? Cause you need to eat, and I am worried about you now.

Client: OMG, it smells like heaven in here. Me: Must be my apple cinnamon plug in. Client: No, you cooked bacon. OMG. Mmmm.

Today my printer acted like a brat, pretending to have paper jams and be out of paper. Then my wireless mouse died. I mean dead as four o'clock. Put in fresh batteries - nothing. THEN, the wireless keyboard went on strike. Fortunately, I had wired ones I could use, but I was pretty wired at that point. I was talking to myself, making statements, assuming...

I am with you on that one. I hate that there's not a tab for returns where the e-file has NOT been created, so I can look at that once in while. I always have a few, like the two I rolled over so I could mail them 1040-ES. I suppose I could then delete them, and rollover again when they show up in October. Also have two others that I had to paper file, one amended, etc.

This is exactly what I would do, saves everybody a lot of grief. And we don't need no cardiac arrest up in here.

Absolutely agree. The other extreme is the guy who includes 85 pages of worksheets that nobody needs. Grrr.

I tried to do it for eight years. Got totally burned out. So, now I am doing taxes, and there is no pressure, and I never have to work long hours or anything. Bahahahahaha!

Yep, and they are parents you are happy to see, but don't really NEED to see, right? I was happy to see one of my students this week. He was a C student and now makes $90,000 a year working at the Chevrolet dealership. My opinion is that running neck and neck with parents in the race of blame when it comes to deficiencies in the school system is that giant, ineffective, agency minding the store. They are not exactly setting the woods on fire. At anything.

Yes, the excess goes on the same line other employees use. I'm sure you are a fantastic teacher, Terry. There are many. But teaching is like every other profession; some are awesome, some are atrocious. Sometime walk down to the Math wing, and see if there are any coaches down there teaching Math with waivers. We had one that liked kids so much, he made them run till they threw up. He treated the cheerleaders better, not sure what that was about. Also, ask the Algebra II teacher if she ever has to teach behind a crappy Algebra I teacher. That is a special kind of misery. I mean reward. Also, when you passed through the English wing, did you see four teachers teaching, but that one guy with his head in the newspaper and half his kids asleep? He is good at discipline. My kids lived through one 3rd grade teacher who couldn't put a complete sentence together. I wanted to get out my red pen and correct all her "correspondence". Thankfully, though, for every one stinker, there were five fantastic teachers. Just wish there were zero stinkers.

I got homemade apple butter! Talk about decadence. Mmmmm.