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FYI TP has been referred to an attorney.

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Letter 12C is a request for additional information after a return has been received. It is not specific to any form. The address is a legitimate IRS address. There is no PO Box as the IRS has the entire 73301 zip code. This is the case with all of their 15 or so regional offices. Seattle, Fresno, KC, Phila, Cinci, etc.

Now that we're on to hot coffee I would like to insert my two cents. I do a lot of traveling during the off season, Boston to NY and back, but I drive in the middle of the night to avoid traffic. I like to start out with a hot cup of coffee that I buy at different locations early in the trip, usually around 2am. Once I put the cup to my lips and it feels too hot, I wait awhile and try later. For the woman winning a case against MickeyDs more power to her, they were wrong in serving extremely hot coffee, but should not she be partially at fault. Doesn't everyone check the coffee, or soup, or pizza before they dive in? I don't know, but maybe Catherine's Nonna's thoughts should be something that has some basis here. Common sense, such a rarity these days.

On the IRS e-services you ask for a wage and income transcript for 2015. Does this adequately answer your query?

August 1st is the date you start asking for 1099s, W-2s and 1098s from the IRS.

1. This is not a ""Quick question". That would be on sentence with a Yes/No answer. 2. I agree with Rita on this as I have used this method many times. I call it "offset to correct erroneous 1099MISC" 3. I do no agree with Pacun as the IRS doesn't decide which one to use until after the fact when issuing a CP2000. 4. Sometimes these things can be resolved by pulling the Wage Income transcripts. BTW, I've seen many duplications of 1099MISc and SSA-1099's. Either these are rejected by the computer or done manualy when income matching is done.

Sign in front of a large bin of peanuts in the grocery: WARNING! This product contains peanuts.

I got a good laugh from this. Like Patrick said, someone must have fallen off a roof using a snow blower at some time. Maybe I should put a warning sign on my pencil sharpener, "WARNING - Do Not Put Finger In Pencil Sharpener."

Bought a new snow blower and in large, bold type there was a warning "WARNING. DO NOT OPERATE SNOW BLOWER ON THE ROOF". After reading it, all I could see is some idiot hauling his snow blower onto the roof and then falling off. Must have happened for them to put the warning in the instructions.

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On a different note from the resident/nonresident rules, the FBAR is required when one has a foreign bank account balance in excess of $10k. Income has nothing to do with it. I know, in the US today you'd need a balance of a zillion dollars to earn $1500 in interest, but in perhaps India and some other places you might earn that much on less than $10k.

What a great off season post! Catherine, my Nonna would say, you could buy education, but not common sense, first generation American taught me how to make a great marinara. Mike, as an emigrant from Long Island, I remember the sweeter the soda, the more slices you would buy (Salerno's on Union Turnpike) , and they were the best! Elrod, this is my wife's preference, the Coffee Queen, now everyone knows the recipe for the best iced coffee, you did a public service, summer is coming.

This is how they should do it..............

as someone with many pizzeria clients, the restaurant would rather give more soda than ice since it cost more to either buy or make the ice than the soda costs.

How silly. When I get a cold drink I always ask for either zero or very little ice. No server, ever, anywhere, has objected to that (although sometimes in busy restaurants they forget). It's just too easy to scoop up too much ice. Open your mouth and say what you want; done. Here's a good place to "go public" with my Italian Grandmother Tribunal idea for tort reform. Before you can bring a lawsuit, you have to go before a tribunal of Italian grandmothers to present your case. If their response is, "What are you, stupid?!" with a good slap upside the head, your "case" is dismissed - permanently. If they add "And if everyone jumps of the bridge you gonna jump too?" then YOU pay damages. Only if they agree do you get to sue. End of frivolous lawsuit problem. (Side note: my nonna had a heavy hand; you did NOT want that slap and would take big steps to avoid one! Bless her; she was a good woman.)

With all of the above caveats noted, there is often a way to do it. However, it usually involves very specific wording and other requirements. You must, must, MUST get a lawyer who is expert in the field to be certain it is done correctly.

i love this quote from the article: The lesson, of course, is that in order to get a tax break for work clothing, the clothing must be so specific, awful, or embarrassing that no well-adjusted person would dare to wear it outside of employment. I would like to quote that in my newsletter this fall.