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I am jealous that people are meeting in the "Middle" of TN. Is there anyone in MD or VA that can accommodate a group gathering? You only need to have a few horses, a soccer field, a river and some livestock. If Kendall Jackson and Margarita with Jose Cuervo are invited, I can bring los limones. Joking aside, I believe gatherings are a good idea and I am wondering if it is possible to have one closer to the DMV area.

I'm not overly satisfied with this video, but I've spent around 10 hours to get this far, so, be gentle. The video looks much better before I upload it to youtube, and I'm not sure how to get around that. So with no further ado:

And I plan to drive from Virginia to Gatlinburg TN tomorrow, and then on to Rita's on Saturday! Back to to Gatlinburg Saturday night, and back to Virginia Monday. Don't know what I was thinking - I am still so far behind! But this will be fun! (Except for all the riding around, and even that won't be too bad - might make up for some of the time I didn't see my husband during tax season to be trapped in a car with him now!)

I'm from MD but I'm driving to TN today. I'm crazy like that.

WHEN I WAS YOUNG....... TODAY'S YOUNGIN'S......... .........

According to an article on the Moss Adams website, there are 22 states that maintain a rolling conformity with federal law using AGI as the beginning point. There are 20 states that maintain a fixed date conformity with federal law, using AGI as the beginning point. Then there 5 states that use Federal Taxable income as their beginning point. First ,any state that has rolling conformity and uses Federal Taxable Income as their starting point will be allowing the PTED. Second, any state that has fixed date conformity and uses Federal Taxable Income as their starting point may allow the PTED depending on their date of conformity.

What will you do in November? Drain the swamp in CT? Amazing that the voters are the people who can REALLY drain the swamp. If everyone wants it drained why do the incumbents always win? Careful, this could lead to a partisan political thread. Let's leave the parties out of it. They both do their best to hoodwink the public. Delete if necessary. I appreciate the fact that this should not become a partisan political discussion on this forum, but it's hard to talk about taxation and leave the politicians totally out of it.

Taxpayers can create an account to pay NY balances due &/or estimated taxes: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pay/ind/pay_income_tax_online.htm They can also mail in a money order to NY, if they don't have a checking account.

Lynn, you only have to hold it for a week.

What more can you ask for, having true love and more importantly, the love for sports (sigh). https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=klwVM_1529552051

Or stop processing such 'hot' stuff!

Nice instructions. Thank you!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple of my short and sweet letters, if you want to play around with them. I don't add the late payment penalties part of the letter until after 4/15. It's a little tricky getting the estimate portion arranged because each payment must be pasted into ATX separately, and you need to rearrange the 4 lines that are the default in ATX, into 2 lines. Federal Refund Direct Dep.rtf Federal Refund Direct Deposit Partially Applied.rtf Federal Bal Due-Penalties.rtf

If you switch it to HD, it looks pretty good. Not sure why YouTube was playing it on 480p for me. I'll also need to research why I ended with with a black frame around the video. I learned a few things making this video. I used Microsoft Expression for the screen capture & audio, and Microsoft Movie Maker to edit out all of my tongue clicks and 'ums' and mistakes and long pauses. I was quite annoying the first time I watched the raw footage! If you're wondering why ATX seems to work so fast, it's because I cut out the delays when opening the return and when bringing up the print dialog. They don't seem that long until you're watching them in a video!

Thanks, Lion! I looked all over on the NY site (plus some goggle (sic) searches). Never found that. I'll bookmark it for any/all NY clients.

You're welcome! So glad you liked it! I'm going to do another on tips and tricks. Someday.

What a terrific instructional video. Thanks very much for posting it. Your customized letters provide so much more detail. I'll look to play with this during the off season. Thank you again.

This is my favorite picture of Karin and I, so you know what we look like.

A while ago there was a thread on the best and worst states when it comes to handling taxes. As the states get their teeth around the TCJA, we'll start to see those that have uglier sides. I nominate CT. On May 31 the governor signed a law that pass-through entities must now pay tax at the entity level, at the top rate of 6.99% of course. Partners and S corp members will get a credit on their individual returns. Problem is that we tax pros found about this on June 13, two whole days before the 2nd quarter estimates were due. So now all these entities are two quarters behind, and interest and penalties are threatened unless the individuals "recharacterize" their individual estimates as paid by the entity. It gets worse. Yesterday we learned that the state has decoupled from the new bonus depreciation that went into effect Sept 27, retroactive to Jan 1 2017. So anyone who filed a perfectly accurate return this past season and took advantage of the bonus now has to amend their CT and pay interest (at 1% A MONTH) and possibly penalties. To ask for abatement, taxpayers have to go through the usual channels and send "evidence and documentation" to the DRS legal department. I feel like sending them the whole 1100 pages of the TCJA! I can't wait to spend days culling client returns to find out who was affected and then tell them they owe CT money and us money for the amendment. The fact that no notice came from DRS until it was too late suggests they were being sneaky, didn't want anyone to notice. We need a DRS liaison in this state, and a legislature that doesn't pass laws that penalize taxpayers retroactively. I can't wait until November!