NECPA in NEBRASKA

It looks like some federal agencies have been involved in the hacking, but they are still checking. It all sucks. I've had my credit frozen for several years. I was happy to find out Saturday that is was fairly easy to open it temporarily when the car that we ordered last August came in. This will hopefully be my last new car. We kept my 2002 Honda because it is still almost like brand new and traded in the 2010.

I wish that I knew how this is going to work. What they released yesterday was that it would take the Department of Revenue a long time to get everything ready and do not anticipate that anything will be able to be filed until after 12/23 and has to be filed by 12/25. I have no idea if the numbskulls even talked to anyone remotely connected to taxes or accounting. If the state society had not sent out a blast last night, I would not know anything. They just lowered real estate taxes by adding a property tax credit to the income tax return that can only be figured out by going to a revenue website. I can't even tell you the number of emails and phone calls I've gotten for that since they passed it. No matter how many times I tell people that it is reducing their state income tax or return and point out the amount, they think that they didn't really get it or that it should have come off of their real estate taxes.

Yippee! I did not retire soon enough. Nebraska just passed PTET rules AND made it retro to 2018. They don't expect to be able to have any of them filed before 12/31/23, so I will have a lot to look forward to in 2024. I would love to push my end date up a year. LOL Maybe I will win the lottery.

I'm using Windows 10. It has worked great. Now I have probably jinxed myself. I keep hoping that Microsoft will fix 11 before I buy a new computer. My son is trying to talk me into a MAC, but I am not about to try something that different for now.

Thank you. I had done online research, but some of their methods scared me. I am pretty uncomfortable making changed to the registry. I was hoping that somebody on here knew an easier way. I will just keep ignoring it as long as it still says it's optional.

The last time that Windows forced an update on my computer (after I had told it not to update), it really screwed it up. I prefer to buy a new computer with 11 on it. I hate that I will probably need to buy a new one before I retire next year, but I probably won't have a choice. If I can keep my desktop running and updated until the end of 2024, then I will get a laptop as a desktop replacement that is more convenient for travel and smaller for when we move. I know that I am dragging my feet about upgrading, but I hate to break something that is working so well.

It was held jointly and sold to take care of her nursing care. I did figure the 1/2 jump up. Thanks for everyone's advice.

Husband passed away in 11/22 and wife passed 12/22. Stock was sold between deaths so she gets a step up in basis. Do I use Inherited for the date acquired or the actual date? I'm hoping that she still gets to treat it as long term gain. Thanks!

Have a great time! That sounds so relaxing. Our son just upgraded to flying 757s and 767s last month, so he is trying to get a trip to Kauai soon after 4/18 so that we can fly with him while my husband still can. His doctors approved it, if I go. Mark has always wanted to see Hawaii so we will fly to their place in Denver and leave from there. He has a 27 hour layover, so it will be a very fast trip. I told him I don't do helicopters, so we can see it from the ground. I rarely sleep on planes, so it will take me awhile to recover. I would have preferred Europe, but getting Mark through customs with all of his drugs and medical equipment sounds like a pain. I am really looking forward to going back to their place this summer and reading a book in the backyard.

I am so sorry for your load.You are going through some very hard personal and work trials. I doubt that the client that wants you to pay P & I didn't tell the other CPA the entire truth. Please take care of yourself and your family. I totally understand not caring as much. After 44 years of making myself sick by not sleeping and working ridiculous hours, I had to slow down and just say "whatever". I'm telling everyone that next year is it and I've been lucky enough to have a few doozies help me out and leave early. Some of them said that I'm only 65 and should not leave yet but I just don't have it in me. I am praying that I can work part time outside of the house doing something else, but who knows if I will be able to leave the house without hiring a caregiver?

I am sorry for you. I am afraid that I will have to file more extensions than last year. My clients seem to have more tax strange issues than normal and are missing more information than normal. I'm not doing great. I have had two cousins die, 4 clients pass this year already, my husband is really failing physically and mentally. I know that I am depressed, but don't have time to deal with it. Thank God I'm retiring from this 12/31/24! I need to try to get caught around the house so that we can move in a couple of years

Update to prior phone call. He never came back to the phone in 15 minutes. He apparently laid it down and left. I called again and it was answered by a very nice rep who transferred me to balance due for my clients, wait time expected 35-50 minutes. That's OK, went about my work. Phone was picked up and immediately disconnected. I'm sorry, this is just frustrating.

I called the IRS regarding a client letter. After answering his phone, giving me his ID# all I hear are crickets and screaming kids for over five minutes. This is really annoying. I think that I found my new retirement job. I can do this.

I hate it, because now I worry that I won't have access to it after I retire the end of 2024. I have the Pro Advisor Accountant's version.

I had read this thread, but I was trying to reassure myself, that since they were married, did not mean that she was entitled to his information.

I prepared a return this year for a guy that was separated from his wife for two years. She filed HOH and he filed MFS. He passed away unexpectedly and she is trying to get a copy of his tax return from me through his family.Will she need to be declared his personal representative? I do know that she is not my client and I will need something before I will produce anything or even admit that I prepared the return. I don't know if she or her attorney are able to use a 4506-T. Does she count as surviving spouse, since they were still married? Tax season has barely started and I'm already grumpy.

It's neither of those. They each own their own portion of land and the renter just writes one check.

I've got a client that receives one check from a farmer for cash rent and then writes two more checks to his sibling to split it. The farmer will not issue a 1099. I don't know why, but the income is always reported on Schedule E. Does my client need to issue 1099s to his siblings? Part of me thinks yes, but then he is not really paying rent to them. He could nominee it out, but there is no 1099 to tie it to. Thanks!

Nebraska has 80 required every two years. I already have 52 for the first year of this term. I am apparently a slow learner and need more classes for stuff to sink in and they keep changing too much crap for me.

Tomorrow at 11:59 PM is the ATX cutoff.

I love the distance vision in my right eye after having cataract surgery last Wednesday.I am going crazy trying to work. I had super dry eyes and the healing process was so painful over the weekend. I have my right eye patched when I am working, because it is straining too much trying to help. They took out the lens in that my old glasses so that I can see my computer with my left eye. I am alternating them with two different kinds of readers for reading paperwork. My vision in the left eye is terrible and my right eye must have been carrying most of the load. I can't wait until Wednesday this week for that one to be fixed. I'm just hoping that the bad weather stays away until after my surgery. I'm having terrible headaches from the eyestrain.

This is brilliant and makes everything that I had to play for my umpteen recitals look like nothing.

I still have a ton of classes left for the year. I will be way over my needed hours, but I find that it takes multiple times to beat things into my head now that I turned 65. My body and apparently my brain immediately aged. I need cataract surgery before tax season.

Mine was short $25k in expenses from the previous year and didn't think that would affect his taxes!