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Maybe we need a "Bless his/her heart" emoji for those times when [just doesn't cut it.

I'm guilty of contributing things that, well, don't really contribute much. But, I do think this board is friendlier than most, and it's my favorite because of that. There's not a soul on here I'd ignore. No kidding.

If I knew someone had you blocked, I'd enter a new post quoting you word-for-word and then add at the end "(at least that's what Judy said on this subject)". Just for fun...

I admit I do some skimming and eye rolling. Bless their hearts. LOL.

I agree with Rita mostly. There are people on here whose posts I sometimes ignore (or gloss over really quickly). But there is no one on here who has annoyed me to the point that I have blocked them (yet.) And it is the personality of the people on this board that keep me coming back - especially during the off season. Kind of nice to know the block feature is there if I really need it. Now if only there were a feature to bring back some of the posters who left that I really enjoyed. Of course, some of them may have moved where there is no internet.

I certainly would not like it. I find your posts extremely valuable.

I know of the feature - but quite frankly, there are people on the board and off the board (and formerly on the board) with whom I did NOT get along, but from whom I learned a LOT. There's a woman in our local group. I detest her (and won't bother to go in to the reasons, just assume the list is LONG) and actively try to avoid sitting anywhere near her if we're at the same meeting. But boy, oh boy, have I learned a lot from her over the years. Her ability to cite tax court cases to support positions, off the top of her head, is remarkable. (It's a real shame she's such a disgusting piece of humanity... but I digress.) I don't believe, that if you asked her, she has ANY idea of my low opinion of her. She *might* think I'm not very friendly. Think real hard about responding to someone who rubs you wrong, or blocking them. Make sure it's really worth it. It's also completely possible to get three words into a post and say to yourself, "Nope; not this one, ain't reading it" and move on.

That is a handy feature. I don't use it with anyone on this forum since I'm fairly thick-skinned anyhow. But several years ago I found myself in constant conflict with someone on another forum. Not sure what it was, but something about our personalities just clashed - they didn't care for me and I didn't care for them. It happens. So I blocked them and that was the end of it. I think it was good for both of us, since neither of us needed to waste our time tossing insults at one another. I decided it's better to save that stuff for Facebook, where you can really be confident that you'll change some minds.

At the Chicago Nationwide Tax Forum I complained that the message on the Practitioner Priority Line had been reciting "new" changes since January 16, 2014. The message has changed at last! I'm so relieved right now that I'm not minding the quarter hour I've been waiting to reach someone. P.S. Aren't headsets great for allowing multi-tasking while on hold?! (Or is that "time-frittering while on hold"?)

I tried blocking in the past and found it annoying and was still tempted to unhide and look at the posts anyway. I know some people have me blocked, but I still try to help them and like everyone anyway. It's amusing to see how long that blocking person will wait to respond when mine is sometimes the only answer. It's also very obvious when I post an exact correct answer and a member who has me blocked will follow up in the very next post with the same thing, and I'm not talking about when people are typing and posting at the same time either. More people would probably like it better if I posted less and stayed in the background to moderate. Less of that too, I'm sure.

Hey, I see what you did there, Judy.

I moderate /r/tax. I almost never go to the tax pros one. It's mostly petrified average taxpayers that post questions.

Evan, There is a setting on the board that allows you to ignore posts from people you don't like. I have used it on 2 people, one who is no longer active on the board and one who is. I don't even see that person's posts unless someone quotes them in a reply post. It has made my life immensely happier on this board. Some people, no matter what they post, just rub you the wrong way. I suggest you use that feature, even if it means you don't like me and never see my posts again. It is one of the best features Eric has put on this board. Tom Modesto, CA

First 7 posts below were moved from "State Tax Aggression that were

Recently, I have had two clients that received refund credits from closed years. In one case, there was a $3000 refund from 2005 that was applied to a balance due from 2017. If this is a new policy, does anyone know when it was changed? Has anyone else encountered this? It used to be that closed year refunds were lost.

I didn't want anyone to miss out on all this fun if they skipped over the other topic.

A non-resident US citizen working in Samoa files a Samoan tax return on the money earned in Samoa. However, the minimum income for filing single is $7200. Any tax paid to Samoa can be claimed as a foreign tax credit on the 1040. I would think that the clients W-2 would reflect the Samoan income. Here is a look at the instructions for the Samoan tax return, form 360. https://www.efile.com/american-samoa-income-tax-return-forms/

Abby, why aren't either of your links working? They both come right back around to this topic on here. Cut and paste of the address into the address bar works, so that is odd that the link itself doesn't. I used the same web address that Abby provided and this works: LINK Abby, is your linked site mostly questions from professionals or from the public with answers by pros? I ask because I noticed another one referred over at the right of that page for pros with the addition to the link "/r/taxpros" that has a different format. Which is it that you moderate?

No things are not separated due to related property rules. Things are separated simply to handle depreciation and deprecation recapture. I think you have hit on my original point. Consider 2 scenarios entered into ATX software: In both scenarios the facts are the same: a Related party sale total net gain =$10,000. (Made up of: • Gain on building = $20,000 • loss on land =$10,000) ==> Scenario 1 Sale of vacation home - Gain recognized on the related party sale is $10,000. ==> Scenario 2 Sale of rental home - Gain recognized on related party sale is $20,000. I understand the no netting rule. This result seems inconsistent. That was why I asked the question.