Lion EA

CT is milder than ME or MA, but the temperatures go up and down and up and down. Everyone has respiratory infections. I just painted the guest bath and cleaned my boxes out of the guest bedroom. If you want to go as far south as CT, I have a laptop that's been acting up! You could drum up some business along the gold coast of Fairfield County.

Tell his mom to buy some flowers for the cemetery or plant a tree in her yard in his memory.

Any suggestions re MA reject code 0892: The Schedule E Reconciliation is required for this return. It also references MA form Sch ES. This is a CT resident who worked in NY but spent some time in same company's MA office during 2008, so filing MA NR for the first time for this client. Looking on the MA site, it appears that MA Schedule E is the counterpart to federal E. However, this client has no rentals, nor pass-through entities, nor anything else that required a federal Sch E. Same with federal ES; all his taxes were well paid with withholding and not ES payments. He has W-2s, interest & dividends, a few stock trades, itemized deductions, and AMT. He also has CT, NY, and MA returns. Any suggestions for me? This client may have an indefinite assignment to MA during 2009, so I better learn how to handle his return!

May I have a cinnamon bun from Mel for my prize?!

A very :bday:

If the software doesn't work out, will you airfreight cinnamon rolls to CT during tax season? I think a standing shipment to arrive every Monday morning while I make my cup of tea.

The buyer and seller will need to include the asset acquisition form with both of their returns, so they better pull out their contract or bill of sale or letter of agreement or whatever has the results of their negotiations re the purchase price, so your client can tell you what he bought for his money.

CT doesn't move anything over the weekends either, even though they are very fast during the week.

Could be something funky happened when you moved 2007 returns to new computer. Any chance you still have old computer with 2007 and 2008 programs and could roll over the rest of your returns there and then export to a flash and import to new computer's 2008? Or, export again your remaining 2007 returns to a flash from old computer and import on new computer to 2007 and try rolling over to 2008? You get the idea. Something got corrupted. Maybe redoing a prior action will have it come through correctly this time....

A very :bday:

A very :bday:

Is she there because she cannot handle her daily activities without help?

Maybe even reinstall both 2007 and 2008. I have CCH's ProSystem fx, but couldn't pro forma at the start of the season from 2007 to 2008. Support checked me out and apparently I'd missed some 2007 updates. They said uninstalling and reinstalling was faster than downloading all the missed updates. Then, all worked as it should. They talked me through it and stayed with me until I'd pro forma'd a return from 2007 to 2008 successfully.

My sympathy.

Follow the directions for Schedule D for attaching quasi D-1s to Form 8453 to mail in while e-filing the return.

Awww...

A very :bday:

I stopped taking prior year returns weeks ago, meaning corresponding extensions for 2008. The people on time get to be ahead of the procrastinators in line during tax season.

My prayers are with him. Our current priest was an army chaplain for many, many years and continued in the National Guard for more years until retirement.

I have never seen a priest pick up the bill at a restaurant.

Maybe a qualification for public office should be to actually try preparing your own return at least once!

OK, so everybody, even the LLC, acted as if the parents still had use and benefit.... You've convinced me to change my mind. In the estate and a step-up in basis. Hope the estate taxes don't wipe out the taxes the kids save upon the sale.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

That was what I went with after Lynn told me that the ML code Rra was for Roth IRA. They're very old accounts for this couple, so no problem with the time frame for opening the accounts or converting. No 1099-Rs, so I decided it was from their contributions those many years ago and not taxable. I made a note to myself. Hope I can decipher it if they receive any IRS correspondence! But it's only about $45 each, so hopefully the IRS has bigger fish to fry.

Thank you, Eric, for your creativity as well as your technical expertise. :blush: