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Thanx, KC, I needed that !!

I looked up several questions (some I didn't know, some I just wanted to verify). I found most of the answers relatively quickly, but there were about 2 or 3 I didn't find before time ran out. Since I had the time, I used it to check and re-check everything.

I understand that you are not allowed to give out information regarding the contents of the RTRP exam, however, my question is - -how time consuming and difficult is it to access the Pub 17? Even after 30 yrs in teh business, I found myself getting hung up with some of the form # questions - -and getting a "passing" grade on practices. I also find myself trying to overthink the question - - - my experience - -it's almost NEVER black & white - - and I won't even go into the 50 shades of grey - - - My exam is scheduled for tomrrow - fingers crossed. :wacko:

Personally, I advise people to shoot for a zero sum return. However, if they tell me they need a refund for whatever reason, I am perfectly happy to help them plan that way. I don't think it is always about what I thinkt is the best choice - it is about what the client needs. And for some people, they can't save if they get their hands on the money so withholding for taxes is one way to enforce saving.

Spoken like a true Marxist!! BTW you guys did a great job in Cuba, USSR & N. Korea.

No, I don't really know. However, if they are looking for anything in particular, why aren't they asking any questions after three months? Why hasn't he gotten a CP2000 instead of two generic letters; one from Austin and one from New York? This is a single man whose return I have prepared for years. He has one job, owns a home; pays property taxes and a little mortgage, gives to charity and has receipts for everything, including the energy efficient windows that he had installed. Oh, and he loves and lives to fish in his time off. Perhaps they are trying to find out if he ever caught more than his limit.

Dead end! I tried E-services again as the client brought in the two identical letters that he has received on 3/14 and 4/2. No luck with E-services. Called Practitioners Hotline and waited 46 minutes, but did put on speaker phone and continue to work. Finally got a live person. Of course, there is nothing he could do for me other than verify that they have received the return and were reviewing it; which is exactly what the two letters said. I asked him if he could jog it; and he said he could do nothing but put a note on it that I had called. Maybe Catherine is correct and this might start something. He could not tell me what they were reviewing. So frustrating and a little frightening that these are the same people who rule our lives as professional preparers. Oh, he did tell me to call again 45 days after receipt of the last letter. I said the letter is dated Apr 2 and today is May 30; I believe that is more than 45 days. He said, "Oh!" ;)

Let me know how that works.... Our experience here (over a hundred clients) is that it makes no difference. Comparing those where someone calls vs. those where no calls are made. This is the same organization that is going to police our CPE credits for our PTIN registration and look for preparers not signing returns all at the same time???? There is a song.... "Do YOu Believe In Magic?"

She's also being called " Lieawatha."

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg PA 19Nov1863 To all who have served -- THANK YOU. Cpl. James F. Murray Jr., USMC thank you especially I still miss you.

I agree. But if a politician is going to be in moral, ethical, or legal trouble of any kind, their chances of sliding through the mess are much better if they come from the left side of the aisle. As a general rule, they get a pass unless the behavior is especially egregious. If I wanted to make a living as a politician, devoted only to getting elected & holding onto power, as a practical matter it would be wise to just abandon my principles and move over to that side.