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Do you now any 13 year olds with bb guns? If it is so high up, the owner will get tired of replacing it at some point. As I read this story, I just kept thinking "would I use a bb gun or a .22?". Tom Hollister, CA

If I had to use the little house at the back of my property at 3 in the morning and it was 22 out, I'd consider tearing it down and building something with indoor plumbing also. True, the little house didn't need a shade, but that's a small price ...

WRONG..... client entertainment just like a waiting room magazines, to keep a client happy while waiting, I use the same excuse to deduct my scotch.

The descriptions and pictures on this list made me laugh out loud when I think back about this past year on this forum. The list goes through to page two of this post: http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?53850-The-Full-List-of-Internet-Forum-Personalities!-With-pictures!

I just wish everyone would participate! It is easy to complain, but unless people submit the suggestions, I don't think they should be able to complain. The CAB meeting was to inform CCH/ATX of the feelings and concerns of their customers. Ours were 8 voices and we spoke very intently about many things. However, unless there are a substantial number of others that make suggestions, it will get no attention. Case in point, ATX2013 is not 64bit compatible. This means that the program can only access a little over 3GB of your RAM. It also is not capable of accessing all the capabilities of a 64bit processor. I have been pushing this "inequity" so hard that I was "rebuffed" for my intensity. I kept asking why the "recommended" hardware was 64bit yet the program was not capable of accessing the 64bit capability. I never did get an answer, and the 64bit question is "under review for possible future implementation." Voices of their customers will have far more weight if there are enough. Some of the major points we talked about at the CAB meeting had only received a few hundred suggestions from ATX users. ATX is stating they have 20,000 users, so a few hundred is "too small a subset for us to be concerned about." Point is: Make your suggestions known and make them known often.

REMEMBER ------ the NSA has all the details of the conspiracy being planned here and THEY KNOW who you are!

ALL Bryson's books are hilarious, as well as educational. Love them.

No. As your own link says, "the ruling does not apply to registered domestic partnerships," Some people expect that to change, but it will probably have to wait for a court case. Or your own clients could be the court case! Personally, I don't believe it will change. California law has always maintained a very big distinction between marriage, which in the past was only for heterosexuals, and RDP which included both same-sex and some opposite-sex couples. Now the limitation has been reversed, so either couple can get married but only certain opposite-sex couples can choose RDP. In fact, one of the purposes of RDP is to avoid certain third-party legal issues of marriage, especially in terms of pensions and support payments from a prior marriage. That's a distinction which remains as definite as male and female, so I don't think your clients will ever have any legal basis for their position that California RDP was equivalent to marriage in 2011.

Go to the MYATX website, and submit this as a suggestion. The more people that insist, the sooner it will become reality. If you remain silent, you will not be helping. At the CAB meeting, we learned how FEW people ever sent suggestions. As long as no one speaks, the idea will be ignored.

my old Daisy bb gun could fire finishing nails dropped down the barrel, breaks the light and leaves nothing incrimination like a bullet or bb.

Is there a Form 8606 in the return where the taxpayer has basis for IRA? If so, you would need to enter the additional information required on that form in order for the taxable amount of the distribution to be properly calculated.

I would guess it's a data entry problem, but it might be hard to find. Maybe some checkbox sends it through the simplified method or something. Maybe it has to do with data already entered for the same fiduciary. I always expect weird stuff in the beginning, when I'm still learning the new program, it still has bugs, and so much depends on prior year rollover. It's probably quicker to just delete the 1099, check for latest update, restart the program, and re-enter. Certainly do that before calling tech support.

Thank you for your posting. Last year and this year, I have realized that I made a mistake because someone posted this issue. Yesterday I did one return for DC (DC is always late with forms), so I was not surprised that DC was not ready. Then I did one for MD, and I thought they were late because they are not receiving efiles anyway. BUT after reading your post, I went to check and I have not selected any states to be updated. I made the changes and all my 3 states are ready. I have to admit that I have not read the instructions for installation this year and I don't know anything, I even forgot how to click next because Jack said "Forget what you learned the previous years". On a said note, I never like to be fancy and manipulate installations, I follow their next, next instructions and if I have an issue then I see what I can do. I learned this from someone: "Don't put salt on your food unless you have tasted it"

Pellet guns are very quiet!! Daytime raid is best. Those replacement bulbs must be expensive!!

So my neighbor tore down his little house at the back of the property and built a McMansion at the front of the property outside our master bedroom. I actually had to buy a bathroom shade for the first time since 1978. Then the new owner put in that very same terawatt floodlight pointed at our bedroom window. If it weren't mounted so high, I'd relocate it to his letter box. Plus his barky dog is out all the time barking. Yes, even at 2:50 a.m. in 22 degree weather and snow. Maybe the dog warden would relocate the dog AND the floodlight.

Display Fusion works with up to TEN monitors? How could anyone pay attention? Between the constant phone calls, returns piling in, and clients sitting at the desk, I have more than enough stimulation. I don't think I could get out of bed in the morning if I knew I had to face all the usual commotion and ten monitors. This must be some kind of trick computers are playing to make the human brain frazzle so they can finally take over the world.

I am reminded of the wonderful Bill Bryson book, "In A Sunburnt Country" where he discusses the various dangerous items in Australia. Animal, vegetable, mineral -- land and sea; the hazards are extensive. He in fact makes up quotes from the should-be-real-but-hasn't-been-written-yet book, "Things That Will Kill You Horribly in Australia -- Volume 19." It's a great book (Bryson's, not the one he references, lol).

Sure you can, as long as the hulu is just for your client's use! Perfectly OK to provide waiting clients with entertainment while they are in your office. No different than having a TV in your waiting room. You, after all, are way too busy to watch TV during tax season.

At what point do we get information overload with too many monitors? I use two and could see a use for a third for the clients to see (but then they'd see me correcting typos or get the idea that I'm just inputting numbers and might decide to try it themselves). It's quick to switch one monitor to another process like email or browser--just click the open program on the taskbar. I think I'd prefer to do that than have six monitors staring at me. After awhile you'd think you were working on Wall Street with tickers flashing all around you. I believe the scientists who are now finding that multitasking makes people less efficient and less accurate. A client-facing monitor could be a disaster for preparers who finish a return in 15 minutes but don't want the client to think that's all the time it took, so they continue to chat for another 15 minutes while banging away on the keyboard (answering emails, checking the weather--the clients have no idea). I love my two, but I think that's my personal limit.