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Yesterday and for an unknown number of days prior to that, the pins required to un thaw a credit freeze on Experian's website were being revealed by answering "none of the above" to all of the authentication questions. Experian says you should unfreeze and then create an new credit freeze which will create an new pin. Here is a link for more details: https://uspirg.org/news/usp/you-should-change-your-experian-credit-freeze-pin

Thank you, everyone for your concerns, I really appreciate it Just to clear up "my help wasn't needed", I had initially wrote a letter to the IRS and attached a copy of the documents the TP had brought in, this was in January 2017, in March 2017, TP received a letter denying it again. I called the IRS and was told they needed a copy of the lease and a complete copy of the divorce decree, mind you this was during the busy season for me, TP said they would just fax it to a number I was given and I had no problem with it. I didn't hear from the TP until July 2018 to prepare 2017 and to give me an update of their case. During the time I didn't hear from the TP, they received another deny letter and the TP called and was told to fax over bank statements, after that, TP was receiving "we are reviewing your account" letters.

Abnormal, it's like "poetic license" - it doesn't have to rhyme. You civilized people would never understand. Only us hicks.

OK, the reg fee is the same amount for both cars, so a flat amount and not based on value. Great reminder, Edsel. Not deducting. Leaning toward the tax being a personal property tax, they are based on value, and deductible. Cars came down from CT and weren't purchased in SC and were 2014 and 2015 so not new in 2017. Tough to understand federal instructions re state taxes at times!

Oh, I understand poetic license just fine. I'm just a bit of a logophile, and I like to learn the etymology of words and phrases.

Termination of Service? No longer needed? Illigitimas, with me that is a one-way ticket for me to rid myself of this headache. You'll never be able to charge enough to justify saving this client from himself.

Abby, thanks for picking that up. Apparently my browser cut off the "15 years"

Nothing definitive here, but I don't think the registration fee is deductible as property tax (as much as I'd like to say it is). I prepare a few SC returns for residents and nonresidents, but is has been a while since I prepared a PY return. SC follows fairly common rules for allocation of income between states for a PY resident, although sometimes you'll need to prepare your own supplemental worksheet to break out the allocation of interest, dividends, retirement income, etc for the transition year. If the clients are retired, SC gives some generous allowances for retirement income. One quirk is how SC handles the K-1 income of a SC resident with ownership in an operating company doing business as an S corporation in another state. If that situation applies, you have some extra work to do, and it is s a little counterintuitive.

If it was moveable on wheels then it would be 7 year property.

I believe that for vehicle taxes to be deductible, they have to be based on value like a property tax.