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To all my dear friends here: hang in there! We are *almost* done with the extensions. Remember to take charge of your clients (not vice-versa): this tax return business was not new this year! They've known about it since January 1st. If they are slug-a-beds about getting you information, then they may go past the 10/15 deadline. Yes, we all want them out of our hair. Better to go an extra week and keep our blood pressure down. If the lolly-gaggers go elsewhere next year, celebrate. If they come back, they now know you won't pull an all-nighter to save *their* bacon and they'll either pay (and not grumble in your hearing) or they'll get their stuff in earlier next year. Do your own returns first! Then go back to the stragglers. I mean really - *where* are they going to go this late in the year? The only ones who might take them are likely not competent (or they'd be busy themselves). Pull the phone plug out of the wall, shut the email program, and do spot checks. And just so y'all know, I'm instructing myself first and foremost here. They do say that the best way to learn is to teach... Hugs (non-RitaB-back-40-style) to you all!

I usually go there at the beginning of the season if I have an issue with the software to see if others have the same problem. If the board has threads on it that are answered by ATX, then I just move on, but if they are blowing smoke and hiding from an issue, then I post all over the board until they acknowledge the issue and get on it. I am only a squeaky wheel over there, but I don't go often. Tom Newark, CA

Well said! I have one that made two appointments three and four weeks ago and cancelled them at the last minute and finally said he would just drop off his stuff today. I am not in the office today so don’t know if he did. In any case, he will miss the deadline. Another client called yesterday and said he would overnight his Mother’s info (she is now in a nursing home) but said he understands that I will not have that return done by the 15th. There are probably another half a dozen that will go beyond the 15th. Not my problem.

I didn't dig too far into the code, but I'd say no deduction based on this part of 213-1(a)(3)(i) where it says : "For medical expenses paid (including expenses paid for medicine and drugs) to be deductible, they must be for medical care of the taxpayer, his spouse, or a dependent of the taxpayer and not be compensated for by insurance or otherwise." https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.213-1

It's a nice group now. I learn a lot there as well as here so I routinely use both.

Since CCH shut down the board with one week to go in the season, I have not even logged in and have no intention of doing so. CCH has owned ATX for 10 years now and still has no clue about customer service, nor software design.

Well, I think TTB must have been working on their site. Last night I got an error message about incompatible coding for the forum site and I couldn't access it at all with Firefox and a different but similar error on their sales page, then later caused MWB to warning me with a popup but still allowed their retail site to load. As of this evening, I am able to access both sites with no warnings at all.

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I usually wait a week after faxing a 2848, and it's always in the system. I guess you could try in a couple of days and see. And Abby, I remember the uproar from the tax professional community after IRS stopped accepting the form electronically. I think they just said no one used it. The real reason was that they were afraid some of us might be unscrupulous and enter the client data without the signed form. (Did anyone on this board ever get audited and asked to produce the signed doc?) Or worse, maybe there was evidence that the bad guys were using the system but IRS didn't want to raise alarms. Every time it comes to light that criminals are using IRS systems, e.g., recovery of IP PINs, FAFSA uploads, getting a PIN without last year's AGI, the media report it as a "hack" when it is really caused by the crooks having enough info on the taxpayer to impersonate. Like all the identifying info Equifax has on each of us such as where we lived or worked or what ice cream flavor we prefer--we still don't know whether or not that non-credit-related info was taken in the data breach.

It kind of sounds like the days of yesteryear.....the year, that is, when the board was shut down because they didn't like comments in regard to the issues that we all had that one year in particular when it was a fight every time we had to file a return!!!!! The board just vanished...poof...no word....just vanished! Oh, yes, I do remember well!

Partial quotes from an article in Accounting Today: Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Susan DelBene of Washington also sent letters to Koskinen.