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I love you, Jack, but I still think your position on this one is silly. It benefits not only the client and the preparer, it also benefits the IRS when we efile a return, and I do not consider it a lie at all, since everybody has normally had, over a year's time, some 'unreported income' of at least a dollar. Like the quarter I found on the ground next the the gas pump last time I filled up, the nickle I found in the change slot of the vending machine at the hospital last week, along with my own quarter in change, etc. And yes, there is a big difference in $1 and $100, because one makes no difference to the taxes and the other probably does. But I don't see it as any difference than the issue of amending a return for a late arriving 1099. The IRS says clearly that you should NOT file a 1040X that makes no change to the amount owed or refunded, unless it involves some other significant item. And when doing an audit, they will write up as a 'no-change' any audit where the changes they did find did not change the bottom line more than $50, where there are no other issues that might affect a past or future return.

You can do it! In fact, earning the RTRP is one thing you have some control over right now. Your pain in the @$$ is at the mercy of the legal system, and won't ever really go away due to the children. So, living well is the best revenge!

Yes, add my congratulations! Glad to know we do not have to invest a lot of time studying. I don't have it. Going thru a lengthy divorce and having problems with a herniated disc. Was not sure when I was going to study while juggling my pain in the neck and pain in the @$$.