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I would put in on Sch C or Sch C-EZ. It is income from work. Just like if he worked at McDonald's for a week or a month, never worked there before, and never will again. He would not get a refund of SS/MC tax. We never think anything about short stints with employers; I don't think we should with subcontractors working, either. I think the spirit of the law, so to speak, for line 21 is really "other" income, like awards, cancellation of debt, etc. You know, where there was no work.

Well - for us that have chosen this industry it only messes with our sleep once a year. The other clock change (the Spring one) we are all either not sleeping anyway or in a total sleep deprived condition anyway that we don't notice any affect of the change. At least as far as sleep is concerned. But most of us do grumble about losing an hour of work time.

When I open Form C-EZ and input income, Schedule SE is automatically opened and populated. RitaB is right on the mark again!!

I like APlusCPE a lot. Just throwing that out there. http://www.apluscpe.com/

According to a paper published by M. J. Kotchen at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the most likely effect of DST is to cost us energy. Using data from Indiana when they changed over to DST statewide, residential energy use actually increased overall. From the paper published: We find that DST results in a 1% increase in residentialelectricity demand, and the effect is highly statistically significant. We also find that the effect is not constant through-out the DST period. In particular, DST causes the greatest increase in consumption later in the year, with October estimates ranging from an increase of 2% to nearly 4%. Consistent with Benjamin Franklin’s original conjecture, our simulation results show that DST saves on electricity used for illumination but increases electricity used for heating and cooling. Both the empirical and simulation results suggest that the latter effect is larger than the former. Moreover, we find that DST costs Indiana households an average of $3.29 per year in increased electricity bills, which aggregates to approximately $9 million for the entire state. Finally, the social costs in terms of increased pollution emissions range between $1.7 and $5.5 million per year. The entire text can be found at http://environment.yale.edu/kotchen/pubs/revDSTpaper.pdf Really makes it seem worthwhile to screw up our sleeping habits twice a year, doesn't it?

I did hear one neighbor say that she is glad we are back to "normal" time. Seems that during the months the clocks are set ahead, the extra hour of daylight is killing her roses.

Sch C or C-ez. Trust Rita! She's right!

Here's a link to download the standard version 1.0. I think you can use it in trial mode for 30 days. WARNING: It's a 1.6GB download because it contains ALL languages.

Nuance PowerPDF Standard can do it. It integrates with Windows Explorer, so you can right-click a pdf file and choose convert to word doc or excel. BUT the reason I bought it is because it will convert the PDF to a fillable PDF. Unfortunately, it's not a batch process so you have to do one file at a time, but it does it quite quickly. If you buy it, tell them you want version 1.0 because it does a better job than 1.2. You can probably find 1.0 on ebay or amazon if you don't mind having a license that the support has expired on. I needed 5 copies so I bought one from the company and 4 on ebay. It's $69.99 from the company and I paid between 29.99 and 34.99 on ebay for the other 4.

Not to mention our medications, our pets and our inner hungry times!

It all makes perfect sense; the program was started as a way to *save* energy. Since it does the opposite, instead of scrapping it they expanded it. Typical government program action. (That is NOT meant to be a political diatribe, but rather a snarky snipe at bureaucracies and how they make decisions in general. How many times to we see the exact same "methodology" in every bureaucracy we deal with... too bleeping many!)

I have ATX on my office PC and my laptop (used at home). I believe I am allowed. I remember asking about this with ATX in the past.

You might want to take a look at the "Batok" decision to gain some guidance. But if he comes back next year with another 1099 form the same company, you might find yourself scratching your head a bit. http://www.bradfordtaxinstitute.com/Endnotes/TC_Memo_1992-727.pdf

The refund will be taxable in 2015, and if the state is like VA, a 1099 will be issued. I also believe the amount applied will be deductible in 2015.

Just about any recent-ish version of Acrobat will password-protect files. I buy not-the-most-recent new, never used, licensable versions from ebay (which is usually good for 2 or 3 computers; perfect for a small office). Since it is not the "latest and greatest" it's usually less than half the cost of a new version. Since I don't need any of the fancy high-end features, there is no sense in paying for today's latest. But I do want a valid license. Citrix File Share *is* more than a bit pricey, as is their e-signature program. CPaperless has a much less expensive (per-signature only, no monthly fee) e-signature program that I like. They also have an add-on to Acrobat called Tic, Tie, and Calculate that I also very much like and use. File portal: someone will find a problem with ANYTHING you try to use. I have had trouble getting folks to use the "Secure Send" feature on my web site so I put the link in as part of my email signature. More now see it, at least... pdf995 also has a suite of products that either run in a sponsored mode free (ads with each use) or to license cost roughly $9.95 each (one of them is $19.95) and those are a good alternative if you don't want to try to find/install Acrobat.

I am not convinced that all my old programs will run on 10. What if I do not want to switch yet. I guess I can turn off however I found one of my programs had a very little check box for upgrade for which I did not spot until I saw it loading and stopped it. Maybe there is a way to stop this upgrade. Suggestions?

My way of thinking was that he did not control funds until 2015 so the deduction and the taxable amount would be in 2015.

LOVE it -- and you are right. Too elegant and too simple ever to be implemented.

I changed the clocks and stayed up an extra hour. My kids got up at their usual time. Extra hour of sleep, my ass.