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Update: I ended up sending an e-card from my American Greetings account with an Amazon.com gift card attached to arrive on their anniversary. I also sent my husband out, armed with address labels, stamps, and return address labels, to buy and mail a card that will be only slightly late but so they have a physical card to display. They are out in the boonies and shop online alot, so hopefully the Amazon.com card will seem more thoughtful on my part than forgetful. Thank you, everyone, for your good thoughts.

@Lion -- paper is traditional for first anniversary. Money is paper! Gift cards are close to paper. If you really wanted to give them a physical gift (although it will be a bit late), American Stationery (www dot americanstationery dot com) has lovely gift sets of reasonably priced, high-quality personalized paper sets. @NECPA -- PayPal is indeed the way to go for taking credit cards (but it is easier if _you_ have a web site - and CPA site builder has a standard format site with no contracts for $50/month with file transfer and multiple email accounts etc.). You link your PayPal (business) account to the website - clients click on the "Pay My Bill" link and can pay by any method and they don't need a PayPal account themselves. Transferring the $$ to your business account is a matter of a couple clicks. It generally takes a couple days to transfer. Yes, there is a fee -- roughly 4%, if memory serves -- but for the few who want to use credit cards every year to pay my bill, in an entire year I don't spend on PayPal fees anywhere near what ONE month of credit card merchant service processing would cost.

NO, MAS; no 'merit badge' should be awarded to those of us who donate to Eric's site. That would conflate a hideous perversion of our professional collegiality with merely mercenary measures. I for one don't post here for the deduction -- tho, of course, I claim it; but, rather, I do it to 'pay forward' the nuggets of wisdom which I harvest here and, perhaps-too-rarely, contribute to the rest of you. I would like to continue seeing this unique site remain as welcoming to piss-poor, first-year students & practitioners as to its mega-earning gurus. Eric is welcome to inferentially 'shame' my lapses by requesting contributions to his endeavor, whenever his budget bodes woe; but, in all cases, those of us who kick-in only should take comfort implicitly/out of a sense of duty or something synonymous with what *drives* us to serve our clients. None of us should need further recognition for solving our clients' tax problems than our solutions -- and the checks we get each time we 'do right.' Our chat-group truly is real, but it is not a 'reality-show' by which our performances should be 'rated' by *anyone* except our fellows -- as has been happening for years before your suggestion. Most expansively, philosophically, & truly yours, TaxCPANY.