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Maybe if it were a removable crown that he took off when not at work.... Or, as SFA says, breasts too big to fit in her street clothes. Maybe he needs a crown with his business logo inlaid in diamonds!

Sparty won! Big Ten!

If you're going to report the income to stop matching when no return is due, then report it on the kid's return where there will be no increased tax liability. Don't add income to the parents' returns.

Don't count on it. I've found that when my clients are snowbound, they call me more often! So, I'm dreading Friday.

Everyone has to look at capital assets, materials, supplies, repairs, and partial asset dispositions, over the years. Explain the options to clients, so clients can make informed decisions about using the simplified procedure vs. Form 3115. There are a lot of courses, webinars, and publications out there to help you with the specifics of your clients' situations. Then, there are annual elections to make or not make, also.

Over-worrying and under-sleeping. That's me.

Day traders are supposed to break out their day trading from their more traditional trading.

With six W-2s and four states, they are going to be underwithheld, especially in the states, and not get refunds.

Was he very over-withheld? Did he take all the kids and mortgage interest and property tax and donations and...?

My clients don't read the letters. I use the filing instructions that are more bullet point, and I still use a highlighter on the things they actually need to do, such as mail ES payments.

So, a NC return with NC income.

Schedule C and a couple of kids, big refund, no waiting.

Did he perform services in Maryland?

Lisa Ihm offers great courses on COD, including Forms 1099-A and 1099-C: http://www.lisaihm.com/Contact_Us.html

Or, if she really moved prior to 2014 as she told you, then a NJ NR return to get withholding back (good luck!) and NYS/NYC resident return.

I should've made this a Poll. I also told him to ignore it. She kept emailing him, so he did do the one short response. I again am telling him to ignore it. He said he would for the weekend, hoping she goes away.

OK, so hubby is taking all my time talking about this, and I have a new S-corp with two states that I promised to deliver Sunday and need to get back to work. The local chapter of American Guild of Organists, an organization that he suddenly ascended to Dean due to an officer moving and then took on just about everything else when another officer moved and a third appointed position-holder died, received boxes of music upon the death of yet another member (yeah, nobody's going into organ, so their membership is aging) from the decedent's daughter. Apparently, the dead newsletter editor, never an officer, valued the gift about $2,000 and offered to write letters on AGO letterhead for $499 for four years running! Or, the daughter bamboozled some letters; which as pushy as she's being, may be what happened in prior years. Anyway, it appears the actual treasurer may have signed one letter with the now-dead newsletter editor signing letters in two more years. Now the pushy daughter has been emailing dear hubby for days and days about getting her fourth letter. Yes, it was one donation in 2011 of boxes of old music. The Guild rounded up volunteers, vans, handcarts, and moved all those boxes out of daughter's house, really more as a kindness due to their deceased member. They tried selling the music at one of their events, don't know what year. Raised a few bucks from the sale and started a scholarship fund named after the deceased member. They then had to get the boxes out of the church where they were storing them, so they gave away (one church had had a fire, so that organist lost all her files) and threw away all that old decomposing paper. What does hubby write in response? I had him do something short and sweet like we received no donation from you during 2014 so can acknowledge no donation for 2014. But, she keeps writing him over and over again. I found a short and sweet IRS memo with bullet points, but it's from the angle of the charity and can't find a corresponding one re donors. The 8283 instructions very clearly state that you deduct it in the your you gave it, but I think the daughter is trying to avoid 8283 so probably doesn't care about it's instructions. I find similar statements in thick publications, and maybe should overwhelm her with paper. But, she just keeps saying but Jane Doe told me it was worth $2,000 and this is the fourth year that she promised me a letter. I want my letter. Yes, dear Miss Doe is the newsletter editor that died so isn't around to defend herself or tell us what really happened, and maybe Miss Doe did wrong but dear hubby isn't going to continue doing wrong. Pushy daughter is not a member, so organization is not concerned with her feelings this many years after her mother died. What would you write? Or, would you ignore completely?

Here it's tracking in the salt pellets and slush. (And, hubby insists on wearing his outside shoes in the house.) Don't have to worry about mowing yet. But, chipping through the ice to clear the walkway and steps has gotten very old. Even with the warmer weather, the melting from the day refreezes overnight. Just took the dustbuster to lots of paper dust/fragments. And, have been trying to get a load of laundry from the washer to the dryer for days. Shower this afternoon before a church dinner.

If he has passive loss carry forwards, file to preserve those. When he sells the house at a gain in AZ, he'll be happy that those losses get released on his AZ return.

Vacuum?!

I work all year. Some due to extensions. Bookkeeping for two business clients, including certain days at their sites for face-to-face consulting. Used to be slow after 15 October, but no longer. I take a lot of classes then and the two bookkeeping clients continue all year and more and more really, really late clients. In fact, almost any prior year returns get postponed to after 15 October. I can earn more working all year. I don't do payroll except for one artist client that I have set-up online via People's United Bank who does all the work; I just enter it every two weeks and download her paperwork into a binder for her. And, I go to the bookkeeping clients' sites much less during this busy season. I miss that slow season, though, after 15 October that's filled up too much now.

Haven't done this for VA, but I have clients who don't send what we'd printed. I have them draw a line through it and write in the amount they're sending. The voucher will scan wrong at the state's end if it doesn't get caught by a human, but the check will be recorded correctly. In CT, the client's record has been correct. So far. Or, as Jack says, have your client print blanks from the VA page. Or, does VA have an electronic payment method available, maybe on their web site? http://www.tax.virginia.gov/content/individual-estimated-tax-payments

Yep, adjustments if Covered. Just use the actual basis if uncovered.

Rita, does she have relatives I could fix up with my clients? Maybe we could organize a dating service on the side.

I'm more behind than ever. Will get the corps done by Monday, I think, and one partnership that's been in the stack forever and a trust project that's months old. Then I hope to pick up speed on personal returns. But, I have a couple on extension already and will require extensions by this weekend.