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Dear Client: Thank you for calling me to tell me you had another call yesterday: "Hello. This is the Internal Revenue Service with a message for (pause) YOU." No, IRS policy has not changed within the past two weeks. Yes, this is STILL not IRS, and IRS will STILL not call (pause) "YOU". They will send "YOU" a letter with your actual NAME on it. The information in the letter may be completely wrong, so bring it to "ME," but your NAME will be correct. I will call "YOU" when this changes. Yes, "YOU" will be the first to know.

Wow! Dear Client letters and it is not even tax season yet. Hope your day gets better! Merry Christmas! Oh - and you have no ownership in the client's doing when they act contrary to what you tell them. That mind-set has helped keep me sane (or at least very close to the border) for the last few years. Took me many years to come to that realization. Again - Merry Christmas to you and yours!

I absolutely ADORE the "Dear Client" letters and over the years have saved several of them in a file that I read when I need a laugh. To back up @rfassett's comment above, I have to keep reminding myself (and/or re-learning the hard way every couple of years) that I simply can NOT care more about my client's taxes/accounting/whatever than they do themselves. That said, "Dear Client, Thank you SO very much for dropping off all your tax documents for 2014 at my back door yesterday. I particularly appreciate that you have, at long last, claimed also to have included the information for the 1099-MISC's that were due to be mailed by 1/31/2015. You may note that I said "claimed" and that is because I have not yet BOTHERED to open said package. For all I know it has a stale cheese sandwich in it and not much else. I hope its contents are worth more to me than a stale cheese sandwich but frankly don't hold out much hope for that. By the way, I won't be looking at it this week. Or next. I'm busy. Toodles!"

Merry Christmas to you as well, Elrod -- and to EVERYONE here.

Dear Client, Why couldn't you listen when I told you on several occasions to not fill in the blank here? Why don't you EVER listen? /rant /sarcasm Folks, if you see a mushroom cloud coming from my area, it's only my client reacting to the email I sent. Maybe we'll make the news. Client created a really nice (more sarcasm) dividend for himself out of his C corp. Feel free to add your own rants below.

I'd just use one; it's the carryover that is pertinent, not which house it was associated with.

Yet another reason I choose not to "upgrade."

I got a lot of friendly commentary yesterday from facebook friends just for this reason.

The rates are the same but the brackets are much smaller so the tax will be higher on a 1041 than a 1040.

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I might as well tack this rant on here too: Dear Still-sort-of-sick-body-on-the-mend, After being sick for 2+ days and sleeping almost straight through for more than 30 hours, why did you have to decide that all sleep would come to an end at 4 a.m.? A little consideration, please!

And the fun begins!

That is good news....oh...except they have a new requirement for 1095's to file the tax returns. I think it will be a late start and 2 appointments for some of our clients. I will try to educate them, but I fear it will be "Call your __________(employer, health ins provider, exchange) about why you don't have the form I need to complete your tax return." Tom Newark, CA

Squee! Momma and newborn from this morning. http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/135606363553/the-squee-heard-round-the-world Newscast with video: http://www.ksbw.com/news/otter-gives-birth-to-pup-at-monterey-bay-aquarium/37059472

They're called 'backronyms' when they deliberately craft a name to produce a desired acronym. CPU, FYI, FBI, LAPD are initialisms, not acronyms, because you don't say them as a word.

Ha! Henceforth I am known as Abby Normal. And let me be the first to say "Damn your eyes!"

What KC said. Carry over until used OR he closes the business. that's the limitation: if the business ends any un-used expense is lost.

No I would treat it as a reduction of sales price to the seller.

They hire a bunch of highly paid execs to sit around dreaming up acronyms that ultimately make fun of us taxpayers.

Where do they come up with the names of these ACTs?