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1. Tax season has ended, and the software issues are no longer so numerous that they need their own forum. I'm going to remove the Software Issues forum, and bring the threads back into General Chat now that things have calmed down. 2. If you people can't keep your political zealotry to your own threads, I'm going to make some changes to the forums. I'll create a new Politics forum, where anyone who wants to can go bananas. We'll keep it out of General Chat entirely if on-topic threads continue to get derailed. It shouldn't be necessary, but discussing things like politics and religion make people lose their minds. It's usually hilarious to watch, but not when you're trying to keep a friendly atmosphere on an internet forum. Then it's just obnoxious. I'll also write a script that filters every post in General Chat for political terms, and hold those threads in a moderation queue where I'll either publish if it's not a political rant, or delete it before it can go public. If that doesn't work, I'll start with the warnings and removing post rights for periods of time. I don't care if people want to discuss politics, but you guys are destroying on-topic threads with your lunacy and risk alienating politically moderate members, which is likely most of them. Cut it out.

Thanks Eric. None of what's posted from either perspective bothers me - I like the give-and-take even when it gets a little out of hand. It's easy enough to skip over when it gets silly. But if it disturbs others then I'm fine with your guidelines and will certainly abide by them. We need to keep as many as possible engaged to suit our professional purposes. I appreciate your dedication to this forum.

I agree that the return itself is spit out of the system, however, the computer doesn't actually generate the CP2000 notice....well, actually, it does generate the NEED for a notice, but from every incorrect CP2000 notice my clients over the years have received was due to an IRS employee further examining the return and including additional items not reported correctly... or so the IRS employee thought so anyway! That's when the aggravation sets in! Years ago, a new client brought me an audit letter as her preparer would not respond to her messages left on his recorder. I helped her get her records in order and went with her to the audit. What the agent told us was as she had neglected to include a small amount of interest income from a life insurance policy on her return, her return was reviewed before sending her a bill for the additional taxes due. She said the employee reviewing her return noticed a very large employee business expense deduction taken on that return. The IRS employee didn't realize the expense taken was due to the fact that the taxpayer personally owned the school bus that transported students to and from school. The auditor stated that had they realized that fact, all the taxpayer would have gotten from them was a bill for the taxes due to the under reported interest. The above is just one example of why I feel the entire return is reviewed before the CP2000 notices go out. I have many instances over the years that have confirmed to me of the actual employee involvement prior to the notices being mailed out. Another reason to make sure every item if income appears on the return! More and more correspondence audits are now being used due to budget restraints. These CP2000 notices are beginning to look like correspondence audits as well as billing for unreported income.

>>a local or state divorce decree certainly can't trump the Federal tax code. The splitting of employment and self-employment income absolutely makes no sense<< It makes sense in community property states, where the court DOES determine how income must be allocated and reported on the federal return. That's in the federal tax code. And even though a divorce decree can not over-ride federal law, it DOES bind the two parties themselves in the way they must apply the law.

I have been disturbed for years!! Sanity is WAY overrated!!

For clarity here, bazookas and RPG are NOT guns. For civilians to own Military grade weapons is already a Federal crime. Another example of exagerate then extrapolate. Your comment is sensless and overflows with the lack of a reality based, factual or logical basis of any kind. Law abiding citizens do not murder people with guns.