joelgilb

Anytime! had to reply, need the posts! 3 to go!

this is Drake? They compete with their professional customers also? Or are they setting up a way for professionals to get a different piece of the business?

let the taxpayers do their own returns. We make a lot more money fixing their problems than preparing their returns and helping them avoid problems!

Pretty much the same reason here! Also, I left Intuit to use TASSC and then that DAMNED INTUIT bought TASSC! At least with CCH, they are not competing with us.

Since when has there aver been any morality in our tax code. Or our other laws for that matter. It is which Senator or House Representative can convince our other politicians we need another stupid law!

8 to go!

I assume you are talking about line 23c on form 1040A And in answer to you question: This year a taxpayer can claim an up to additional $500 in their standard deduction for real estate taxes paid (Single) and up to a $1000 MFJ Atx will calculate it correctly Had to think about that one because even on the easiest returns I never do anything less than a full 1040

haven't heard anything about converting this to a true credit. KC is right as usual reduce their credit. As a professional you can take aggresive positions with legal support, but you can not help a taxpayer commit what is essentially tax fraud.

just because he had no income as it was a bad year doesn't mean he discontinued his business. Although you might want to ask him this question

Happy Bday! and welcome aboard

and oh, those posts got me just a wee bit closer. 13 to go!

Maybe I should just stop paying taxes like so may of our clients.

This is kind of like when our government keeps changing the social security levels. every time I was almost there they increased it. And now getting above medicare is impossible.

This is kind of like when our government keeps changing the social security levels. every time I was almost there they increased it. And now getting above medicare is impossible.

damn, just as I thought I was about to reach my goal in life Eric has to throw me a curve ball.

Ok this makes it 18 to go!

Hmm My original home town of chicago: The Chicago Fire Al Capone The St Valentine's Day Massacre Besides Blagojevich: Nine men have served as governor in the past 50 yearsin IL. Two — Democrat Otto Kerner and Republican George Ryan — were convicted of crimes they committed while in office. Democrat Dan Walker also was imprisoned after he left office, but for crimes unconnected to his tenure as governor. And Republican William Stratton was indicted for tax evasion in connection to his use of campaign funds, but he was ultimately acquitted. Now for the current home of Las Vegas: 1. All things MOB! (oh yeah, chicago too) 2. Gambling 3. Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Flamingo Hotel) 4. The Strip 5. Wynn 6. Mayor Oscar B. Goodman, Lawyer to the MOB! : (OK THIS ONE NEEDS MORE EXPLANATION - he represented defendants accused of being some of the leading organized crime figures in Las Vegas, such as Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, Herbert "Fat Herbie" Blitzstein, Phil Leonetti, former Stardust Casino boss Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, and Jamiel "Jimmy" Chagra a 1970s drug trafficker who was acquitted of ordering the murder of Federal Judge John Wood. His most notorious clients was reputed Chicago mobster Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, who was known to have a short and violent temper. In the semi-factual 1995 movie Casino, the character of Nicky Santoro was based on Spilotro and was portrayed by actor Joe Pesci. Goodman had a cameo appearance in the film as himself. Goodman also represented former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock, who was convicted of accepting illegal campaign contributions and eventually forced to resign.) And we though Ex Gov. Blagojevich was bad.

Maybe we need to extend tax season to Jan 31, 2010 to handle all the late forms. No, we can always work more hours in a day, because we don't really need to sleep.

GO MEL! How about we start a little contest to help name Mel's tax software? What do you think Mel? My first vote "Igneous Force Taxware"

This has always been an Intuit policy at all product levels, including QuickBooks. When I first started preparing returns in-house (for those that remember service bureaus and hand prepped returns) back in 1983 I think, I purchased Turbotax from Chipsoft. The DOS based software was supposed to be able to prepare one return, but if you repopulated the fields OR saved the file when it was blank and then overwrote it for the next return you could prepare an unlimited amount of returns. Then by writing a simple batch file (DOS guys) you could actually create a client list and save the files by client. Well a number of us used this little and fairly competent software to prepare professional returns, until Intuit bought them and crippled low end features (such as dividing social security by 2 and automatically putting the taxable amount on the 1040) to give us just enough problems to create a malpractice potential. This forced us to pay 1000's more for their "Professional Software" identical in all other aspects without crippling (well it did add a client list). Only Microsoft has a worse track record of screwing the consumer! And I think Intuit may have even passed them up!

Kind of hard for the money to stay here. We don't produce anything anymore. We have finally become a Service Nation!

that's better ony 25 to go!

Damn, still 26 away for me. I need to post a lot of little messages quick

CONGRATS BOB!!!!

Quick correction so anyone looking can find it it is Cobian at http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm version 9 is not open source but version 8 is I have just downloaded it as my Norton Ghost does not really do the job the way I want.