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The only thing I am stockpiling right now is a lot of anger and frustration. And I have no idea what line to enter that on since I can't open a return yet !!

The .07 release will have the following: 2012 Forms and Printing for: 1. 1040 2. 1040A 3. 1040EZ 4. 8888 5. 8889 6. 3903 7. 4835 8. 8880 9. 2106 10. 2106EZ 11. 8615 We will be adding the remainder next week once they have gone thru QA. There still is a red DEMO Watermark in peek mode but when printed it says cannot file until Jan 30th. There are many more things in this update that are not visible to you. Doug Hughes

Doug, I remember you saying you guys were working on the download speed. I must say, good job! The 06 downloaded for me within 2 minutes. That verses 7 hours for the first time is incredible. Thanks for working on this

This is a draft of my agreement if a client insists on filing early. You guys can change this to suit your practice but I believe this will protect us from any liability if we have to file early because they insist.

Not to mention Schedule C filers like myself who also have depreciation :angry:

And, that passive activity form also.

Yikes I see that Form 4562 Depreciation and Amortization is on the list of forms that cannon be e-filed until Late Feb. or early March! This means owners of rental property, are going to pretty upset.

IRS was forced to do this. Remember they did this in 2011. I am going to make up a disclosure form and have the taxpayer sign it so that they can't complain that I delayed their refund which will be delayed anyways. Taxpayers got spoilt with that 10 day refund deposit.

IRS Isn’t Doing Enough to Help Identity Theft Victims National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson told Congress in her annual report that the Internal Revenue Service is not doing enough to assists victims of tax-related identity theft and tax return preparer fraud. The IRS is instructing its employees to advise identity theft victims that it will take 180 days—half a year— to resolve their cases. Complicated cases inevitably will take longer. The report also criticized the IRS’s failure to provide tax refunds to victims of preparer fraud. When a taxpayer is victimized by a preparer who receives a fraudulent refund by paper check, the IRS will issue a replacement refund to the taxpayer. However, the IRS will not issue a replacement refund when a taxpayer is victimized by a preparer who receives the fraudulent refund by altering the bank routing number on a direct-deposit request, even though the IRS has received legal advice that it may do so. Olson said the taxpayer-victim is legally entitled to receive the refund, and the IRS has no legal basis for withholding it. The report noted that the Tax Code imposes a “significant, even unconscionable, burden on taxpayers.” Since 2001, Congress has made nearly 5,000 changes to the tax code, an average of more than one a day, and the number of words in the code appears to have reached nearly four million. http://www.accountin...1496a:&st=email

One more http://tax.cchgroup.com/downloads/files/pdfs/legislation/2012taxyear-inreview.pdf

Sure would be nice if there were any evidence that anyone in Washington had any respect for anything the Founding Fathers said on this or any other subject. Unfortunately, what we see in most politicians today goes beyond disregard - it appears to be outright hostility to those principles.

A Dog's Purpose? (from a 6-year-old). Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife Lisa , and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn't do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home. As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience. The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker 's family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away. The little boy seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or confusion. We sat together for a while after Belker's Death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives. Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, ''I know why.'' Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunned me. I'd never heard a more comforting explanation. It has changed the way I try and live. He said,''People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life -- like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?'' The Six-year-old continued, ''Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don't have to stay as long.'' Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Remember, if a dog was the teacher you would learn things like: When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure Ecstasy. Take naps. Stretch before rising. Run, romp, and play daily. Thrive on attention and let people touch you. Avoid biting when a simple growl will do. On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass. On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree. When you're happy, dance around and wag your entire body. Delight in the simple joy of a long walk. Be loyal. Never pretend to be something you're not. If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it. When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by, and nuzzle them gently. There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. So, love the people who treat you right. Think good thoughts for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of LIFE...Getting back up is LIVING...Have a great life. And if you liked this post , PLEASE SHARE AND LIKE THIS PAGE and continue to be inspired with sayings that lift us and jokes to laugh at. Much love to you all, J.J. Cohen

Thanks for sharing KC

Thanks Jim. Seems a bit odd [scary?] that a quote from the year 1788 is so appropiate to today, isn't it?

WELL SPOKE KC! Nice quote. Jim

'By the way, the Founder's Quote today seemed especially appropriate in today's world: "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow." --James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788

Well, better to get it right than to get it fast, IMHO. Especially as the IRS has the same problems, and has delayed everything on their end. Any one know if the other software companies are having similar issues?

Here is a little movie trivia. Next time there is a re run of Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta's big break as an actor), watch it. There is a scene where his friend who get's a girl pregnant is complaing to him and John just want to borrow his car. Look in the background. They are standing in front of a local tax prep shop in NYC offering 10 returns for $200. It was advertised right on the window like used merchandise stores. Every time I see that move i get a chuckle at that scene.

How about the blue mimeo graph machines. Always ran extra copies just to smell the ink. I'm talking about the hand crank ones and not the self-feeding that disappeared years ago as well. I'm a teacher and the thought of making a transparency that you used on a roll is way too funny. Comes right in line with the slide projector and cassette tape for audio. "Ding" next slide please. Gosh we are dating ourselves.

Do they even still have carbon paper?

Crank says... What a bunch of old people. My first computer was a compaq in 1984. It was the size of a suitcase with a 5 in (i think) green screen and two 5.25 floppy discs, no hard drive and if I remember correctly, 512k of RAM. Lotus123 was the softwwaqre of choice loaded with macros. In 89 I moved up to a 10MB hard drive and a modem. And of course I first got internet service in early 1996 and no one else I knew, knew what the internet was. I got my first email address and had no one to email. For the first few days I kept checking it for mail thinking I might get some sort of junk email like the USPS...geez. I was fascinated by this internet thing and ordered a 5 year prepaid dial-up subscription for $250. Oh yeah, and when I was a kid we used to walk to school in the freezing cold over 5 miles, uphill....both ways.

When I entered the profession, tax returns were still being done by hand. (As an editorial aside, I believe every preparer should begin his/her career doing a season of tax returns by hand - that is a wealth of knowledge not gained elsewhere.) Every return was done by pencil with a big eraser. Maintaining depreciation schedules were a real challenge. I bought my first computer before the firm I worked for had become automated. My first computer was an IBM 286 with 5 1/4 (I believe that is right - maybe it was 8 inch) floppy disk drive. With the computer, I bought a color monitor and a dot matrix printer and the set up cost me over $4,000 and came with a very cumbersome word processor and an equally cumbersome spread sheet. Oh, that was in 1984. Shortly thereafter, I went to work for a different firm who was automated. We had one computer station for 20-some workers. Good times!