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If we are playing PTIN # poker, I have a Full House. I am definitely all in !

I'll call you both and join the club. Mine is also 6 digits with two leading 00s and then starts with a ''7". Extra olive in the martini, please.

That makes us double 0s. Name's Normal. Abby Normal. I like my umbrella drinks shaken, not stirred.

Mine is six digits with two leading zeros; now I feel like a newbie!

I would say 5 Jokers, all wild in this case, you win hands down! That's what I call being audit you can be!

Everything....

My PTIN starts with four zeros before four other digits. Pretty low number!

I was just offered to go in with two others for $10 each. But the times I bought a ticket I've never had even 1 number, so I would probably jinx them. I still have time, I need to think about this. Not that I'm cheap, but I adhere to Arnold Rothstein's method of betting, "I don't bet unless I know the outcome." With the odds I think in the trillions that $10 will buy me one of Abby's or Judy's martinis, if I throw in a few extra bucks, and I would consider myself a winner having one of my simple pleasures.

I don't play poker, but what would five zeros beat?

I reverse the numbers on return for 3rd party designee PIN so I don't fumble while on phone with an agent. Don't want to waste their time, although they have nothing else to do, and I do like to chat. One time in speaking with a rep I found out she was related to my manager at one of my first jobs.

I got my PTIN in 1999, as soon as I heard about it. Not having my Social Security number on thousands of tax returns is a no brainer.

That's one good thing that came out of the PTIN mess. Before that a client paid me with a third-party check that bounced; then stole my SSN off his return copy and opened two rent house accounts under my name in a nearby town. Six months later the power company called demanding payment of my long past due electric bills. No, no...you're being much too hard on yourself. Granted, no one could ask that you do more, but see, you just need a little adjustment to your outlook on such things. I, for instance, subscribe to the view of the late Groucho Marx who famously remarked "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would be willing to have someone like me as a member!"

Have you bought your Mega lottery ticket yet?

Laphroig Lore with one ice cube, please.

But is it filed, if it's rejected?

Have also done that but keep low key about it with clients. If IRS catches on could be an issue with filing an incorrect and incomplete tax return.

As Judy stated, looks like their is some stepped up basis involved.

Mine is low 6 digits starting with a 1, and the 4 of the digits relate to my birth date, so, yeah, easy to remember.

Me too. I've never seen one lower than mine, only last 5 digits beginning with a 5. Easy to remember. Also makes me feel old.

Yes, I need to develop a document retention policy and have all my clients sign and choose if they want a longer period retained. I was thinking I'd keep 10 years but give the clients the option to keep as few as 4 years or as many as they wish. I've had to refer back to 10 year old returns before. One problem I have is that my backup provider keeps deleted files forever, theoretically. So a backup would be available in case of a court order. There is a cumbersome process I could go through to remove those files from the backup server... or I could switch to a new backup service after deleting a bunch of old files.