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I would simply walk away from my business before I would sell it to HR Block. I think to much of my clients.

I think you mean liability instead of collision. Liability covers any damages caused by you to another person or property. Collision covers your car in the same situation.

The IRS citing "low usage" is planning to eliminate the 2848 input to E Services as well as the Electronic Account Resolution (EAR) products. WE will now have to either call Practitioners Hotline or fax it to CAF. http://www.accountingtoday.com/taxprotoday/news/IRS-Closes-Disclosure-Authorization-Electronic-Account-Resolution-Apps67048-1.html?ET=webcpa:e7217:92331a:&st=email&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tpt_061013&taxpro http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/e-services---Online-Tools-for-Tax-Professionals Of course right after I purchase TaxScripts which totally automates the entering of POA's. There are a couple of ways for us to voice our complaints: 1. Call E services 1-866-255-0654 and voice our complaint. 2. Post your comments and concerns about the IRS decision to obsolete DA and EAR from the e-services menu options here: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Send-Us-A-Comment-About-the-Web-Site 3. Sign an Online Petition here: http://www.beyond415.com/knowledgecenter/article/alert-online-petition-urge-irs-to-reverse-decision 4. Contact your congressman I have written a short letter that meets the IRS website character limitation of 1044 characters below to facilitate the post of a complaint. LETTER: IRS intends to retire the Disclosure Authorization (DA) & EAR products August 11, primarily due to low usage. As we become more electronic e-services become of greater importance, & I expect more professionals will use them. Currently it can take days or weeks to get a POA entered via the CAF unit. Not being able to enter POA's through eservices makes it near impossible to deal with emergency situations, & timely deal with taxpayers' problems and issues. When it is necessary to send a POA to an agent, revenue officer or someone in the collection system, it is not only time consuming, but it is a financial burden to taxpayers. It is especially burdensome when it is necessary to speak with and fax the POA to multiple IRS employees, something that happens more often than not. Not being able to enter POA's directly through e-services, also makes it near impossible to deal with emergency situations for taxpayers. I am therefore requesting that IRS reconsider its decision to retire the DA & EAR service.

NSTALLING HUSBAND 1.0 Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance — particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable pro...grams, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, NBA 3.0. And Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.5 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do? Signed, Desperate Dear Desperate: First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Please enter the command: “http: I Thought You Loved Me.htm” and try to download Tears 6.2 and don’t forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, over use of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5 Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background, that will eventually seize control of all your system resources). Also, do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 7.7 Good Luck, Tech Support

You prepare the return, you sign the return!

1. NO Not allowed under Circular 230. 2. YES Dump them.

I believe we all get those calls and letters from HRB and (in my case) Liberty every year.

Gee. I was unaware H&R Block would offer to buy a practice out. I'll have to keep that in mind when i pull the plug. With my luck it would likely be a posthumous purchase.

I dislike special breaks for deadbeats and intentional low lifes. Special breaks for someone who has experienced unexpected or uncontrollable events is not a problem. People who live their lives recklessly and with no regard for how it affects others do not deserve special breaks when things go bad. This country is on a runaway path downhill by rewarding irresponsible behavior with debt relief and tax breaks. I guess the ethics I grew up with about personal responsibility for my actions has been thrown away by our society such that the irresponsible people are living on my tax dollars.

We probably should charge more for paper filing since it requires a little more work.

Joel, I will merge them if you REALLY WANT ME TO, but I think it's a valuable enough message that keeping both threads makes sense to me, because some will read the new one that perhaps skip this one.

So the mediums for communicating words and speech have only improved technologically a little bit? Apply the concept to all of the 10 amendments or none. Your contention seems baseless. There were weapons of mass destruction (cannon and black powder) when they framed the constitution.

Does this mean that the 1st Amendment should not apply to technologies that did not exist at the time? Radio, TV, Internet... I think NOT! I do not think the writers of the constitution and the bill or rights were being exclusionary about any parts of it. "Oh, but if things change, these rights may not apply." MALE BOVINE SCAT!!

>>strictly enforce the original language<< Easier said than done!. There is a lot of disagreement about whether the original meaning of some words in the second amendment, like "arms," includes technological concepts that didn't even exist until 200 years later. And even more fundamental is the question about what exactly the original language WAS, especially about that first comma that was approved by Congress but not copied in the ratified version.

Just wrote my congressman the following letter: The IRS citing "low usage" is planning to eliminate the 2848 input to E Services as well as the Electronic Account Resolution (EAR) products. WE will now have to either call Practitioners Hotline or fax it to CAF. http://www.accountingtoday.com/taxprotoday/news/IRS-Closes-Disclosure-Authorization-Electronic-Account-Resolution-Apps67048-1.html?ET=webcpa:e7217:92331a:&st=email&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tpt_061013&taxpro http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/e-services---Online-Tools-for-Tax-Professionals As we become more electronic e-services become of greater importance, & I expect more professionals will use them. Currently it can take days or weeks to get a POA enter via the CAF unit to allow a representative to speak with IRS and resolve taxpayer issues. Not being able to enter POA's through eservices makes it near impossible to deal with emergency situations, & timely deal with the taxpayers' problems and issues. When it is necessary to send a POA to an agent, revenue officer or someone in the collection system, it is not only time consuming, but it is a FINANCIAL BURDEN TO TAXPAYERS. It is especially burdensome when it is necessary to speak with and fax the POA to multiple IRS employees, something that happens more often than not. Not being able to enter POA's directly through e-services, also makes it near impossible to deal with emergency situations for taxpayers. IRS requires electronic means when it helps them, but has consistently discontinued electronic means to timely assist taxpayers with their tax problems (for instance some years ago one could email IRS to communicate timely and quickly, but shortly after this efficient system was put into place IRS pulled it for snail mail options). Please Help the taxpayers of Nevada and the rest of this country to be able to efficiently deal with their tax issues, by stopping IRS from retiring a service that truly helps the citizens of this country resolve one of their most important issues - Tax Problems. Thank you for your anticipated assistance in this matter.

I posted the same topic here after this thread but before I saw it. KC if you can merge my post there and add it here that would help. Also, I would suggest that anyone that has trouble with e-services POA's and transcript delivery look at CCH's product: TaxScripts which can be purchased at CCH, ATX or Taxwise and costs $195.00. I have found that I can enter a POA, and download 20-40 IRS transcripts in about 5-10 minutes using the CCH software. And although I am an ATX basher Taxscripts is a great tool!

She will also need to be on the lookout for electrical problems in the future. Oftentimes they don't show up right after the flooding, but then contacts & connections begin to corrode and odd things begin to happen. Seat belt retractors can also rust, which would be a definite safety hazard. Mold & mildew can also form in places & panels which are inaccessible. A car that had been flooded by fresh water is less of a concern than one which had been flooded by salt water, but in either case problems can surface long after the car appears to have dried out.

>>can he take the insolvency exception on his personal return?<< No, insolvency (and reduction of tax attributes) must be calculated on the corporate level. Why should you feel guilty? It was entirely his own choice to remain an S-corp during his years of loss, and he personally claimed all those losses. In other words, he's ALREADY deducted that money, and then stiffed the bank that actually paid it!

--> He is attempting to make me feel guilty because I informed him that unless the bank will re-issue the 1099-C with his SS# on it, the S-Corp must claim the income and "I do NOT want to pay tax on this money!" <--- Jack: Is he trying to make you feel guilty, or is he somehow trying to make you feel liable? You know how weird things can get with some clients, especially when they're in trouble. Their imaginations run wild and their common sense even wilder.

WIN7 PRO has encryption capabilities for security that Home does not. You can encrypt the information written on your hard drive such that if a hacker gets to your drive, he will get gibberish instead of data.

I'm going to beta-test 2013, so I'll have an idea of how next years program is working. If its working, I'll happily stay with ATX. Remember, I'm not having big issues with 2012; the main one is the memory leaks.

I wish there was an undecided button. I might not chime in on this one until November or so.