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I think this is as close to an announcement as there was: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> They were born June 22, 2011. Their names are Isaac and Claire. I was exhausted for at least 6 months, probably closer to 9 months, but now they pretty much keep each other entertained

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she enquired: "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz. She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn't change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything." Remember to put the glass down.

I have a folder for each year's authorizations, in paper. After three years they get scanned en masse, then the paper gets shredded. so I still have the (accepted) electronic copies, in perpetuity. On that computer's mirrored drive, the backup mirrored drive, and the online data backup. Plus the disc backup that goes into off-site storage once a year. Belt, suspenders, duct tape, and staples...

KEEP IN A PRIVATE PLACE, BUT WHERE YOU WILL SEE IT EVERY DAY.

Why SO many redundant backup copies? Obviously the irs doesn't believe in having or needing backups

The Alarming Reason the Government Confiscated Money From a Member of Glenn Beck’s Staff Jun. 17, 2014 5:00pm Erica Ritz Let’s say you take out a safety deposit box for precious family heirlooms, or create a bank account for your children that you don’t make transactions with regularly. How long would it take you to realize that the government has actually confiscated your property, sometimes without even informing you? That’s what happened to Glenn Beck’s chief of staff, Joe Kerry, and countless other Americans across the United States, many of whom are unaware that the state can legally take hold of your possessions if your account shows no signs of activity for a certain period of time. The law varies state-to-state, but according to a 2008 report by ABC News, the waiting period used to be in the range of 15 years, whereas it is now usually closer to three. Why has the government lowered the threshold in so many places? From the 2008 ABC report: “The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they’re supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a ‘Good Morning America’ investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn’t really unclaimed and then use the money — your money — to balance their budgets.” [Emphasis added] The Australian government recently lowered its own threshold from seven years to three, and according to the Herald Sun, nearly $360 million was seized from from roughly 80,000 inactive accounts over the past year. That’s reportedly more than the Australian government seized in the past five decades combined. ABC, which wrote that states return “less than a quarter of unclaimed property to the rightful owners,” explained how the law affected one woman: Beck said he was talking about the situation in Australia — unaware that the United States has similar laws — when Kerry said the same thing happened to him. “I guess it was six months ago,” Kerry explained on Beck’s radio program. “[My wife, Melinda] was like, ‘Joe, we stopped getting the statements on this one account.’ And first she wanted to know if I liquidated the account. I assured her I had not. She’s like, ‘What happened?’ She started going through the statements, and on one statement, which was full of language, one sentence in one paragraph of that statement said, ‘If you have no activity on this account, we will close out this account…’” Kerry, an attorney, said he didn’t understand how the account was considered dormant when dividends were paid into it, and they were paying taxes on the money the whole time. “Never called you or notified you?” Beck asked. “Nothing from the state,” Kerry responded. Kerry said he and his wife even went to their state senator about the matter, asking why they were never informed that the funds were set to be confiscated when all of their contact information was accurate. Kerry said they received an answer along the lines of: “Well, under this new law … you don’t log into this account in a six month period, that money is transferred to the state.” Kerry said he eventually received confirmation that the money was transferred to the state, but that the state didn’t even seem aware of how much it had confiscated. “Our state senator is calling the, I guess, Department of Treasury at the Pennsylvania level, and they could not tell us where that money was, how much was taken, and how we would get it back,” Kerry remarked. He said they were eventually able to figure out how much had been taken by looking at old statements, and were astonished when they found that the same thing had happened to a number of their neighbors. “I talked to Melinda today,” Kerry concluded. “As of two weeks ago, the state of Pennsylvania has now started sending this money back.” Beck was stunned that the American government can confiscate private property in such a way, saying “this is such a dangerous thing.” “It’s a shark bump,” Beck concluded. “If they can do this, they can do anything.”

Paste the following link into your browser for a good discussion: http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2014/Jun/20149801.htm

Thank you for the insight. I appreciate it. So there really are people out there who don't report all their income? :-) Ken Weber Vancouver, WA

I think the IRS is simply lying. I think the e-mails were deleted intentionally. They have had time....

The dividing line between freedom and tyranny gets blurrier every day. Perhaps this was posted before, but just in case .... http://www.ij.org/michigan-civil-forfeiture-release-9-25-2013

As a twin myself, with a twin brother, I well remember the closeness. Congrats, Eric, they are adorable.

There are compatibility issues with Acrobat Pro 8 on Windows 7 and Windows 8, especially 64bit versions. I believe Jack is correct, you may need to upgrade Acrobat. EDIT: Perhaps download the 30 day trial of the latest version to see how it works: https://www.acrobat.com/free-trial-download.html

Yes, I would trust them completely to report the income.

Many thanks to you both!

Late filing penalties are based on the tax due, so if there's no tax due then there is no penalty. If her income is clearly below the filing threshold then she has nothing to worry about. However, if there are any ambiguities and there is any chance that she might owe tax in any significant, then the SOL has never started and it never will until she files. Any chance she needed to file a FBAR?

I would be worried that ATX cannot compute the EIC.

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