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I FINALLY have proof that paper beats rock ---------

For those times when you need to look nice, but you may have to fight the Persians. Or have a chariot race.

but but but I have a client who's taxi cab was stolen last week.

These are the folks that regulate us (or want to) but apparently have too little to do (so they look for more trivial things). Here is the URL for the article on MSN: "Is IRS proposal kiss of death for charities?" http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/nonprofit/is-irs-proposal-kiss-of-death-for-charities/ar-AAghY9W?li=BBnbfcN&ocid=U147DHP Here is an excerpt: What’s wrong with the current regime for substantiating charitable gifts? Bizarrely, the Treasury notes in the proposal that the current system works “effectively, with the minimal burden on donors and donees.”

And, of course, since identity therft is non-existent, giving your SSN to even more places doesn't bother anyone, right? Am I the only one who still remembers when the SS law specified that the number was NOT to be used for identification?

But that is part of what impresses the heck out of clients.

The election that ATX provides does not mention a dollar amount, just the code section: Section 1.263(a)-1(f) De Minimis Safe Harbor Election Taxpayer elects to apply De Minimis Safe Harbor under Reg. 1.263(a)-1(f).

I do my W2s and 1099s on paper too. I don't have too many. But I don't pay for the stamps. I give the originals to client to sign and mail.

I'm a CPA, and at my only stint with a (big) CPA firm, I used ProFx, which is top of the line software. It also costs 20k or more. i do quite a few multi-state returns (I love multi state because I'm a frikkin masochist- yeah I seek out those suckers as a specialty) and I find ATX handles them just fine. When I find a situation that ATX can't handle, like when I had same sex couples that had to file an out of state return as single, I just copy the return and then change the filing status to do the oddball state, deleting what I don't need for that return. No need to input from scratch. Also, the out of state tax credit calcs improved 100% in the last 2 years. They are much easier to do than they were in 2011. All that said, if you are used to menu inputs like with Profx, Drake will not be much of an adjustment. But I will also stress that you MUST know when a return is correct. I have the all-states guide and go through a states instructions very carefully when doing one I'm not very familiar with, and look for oddball credits and deductions a state might have. And I always check to see if anything has changed on all the states I do.

I would rather pay for the stamps. I don't do enough 1099s to bother with efiling. And I have to print the copies for the clients anyways, so what is another 2 forms in the printer and a stamp on the envelope. Tom Newark, CA

And watch out for the imaginary character i.

What's with all this flap on tents?