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I transmitted our federal, CT, and IL returns with direct debits. Yeah! I have a used HP all-in-one that's newer than my broken one from a client; it's sitting on my guest room/junk room floor. I ripped off the bubble wrap and plugged it in to scan the 1099-B to a flash to take to my computer to send with our return. I have a new Fujitsu scanner that's not set up. Who has time?! This virtual water cooler keeps me going. Thank you, Everyone! And, luckily, grateful clients make it worthwhile.

When I went through school in 96 we had to do all the forms by hand in pencil so that you really learned how a change on this line of this form affects things on that form. I can't even imagine trying to do that with this new I'll be nice and say, "stuff." I'm doing good to know what the schedules are now. What was that about the Paperwork Reduction Act????

I would WITALADY, but it's been 10 years since I've done any tax prep. I think you'd get a lot madder at my mistakes, than my sideways humor. I'm Just trying to be kind to everyone.....

I googled the message you pasted, and this is the answer that I got: You can see the definition of names by activating the Formulas tab of the ribbon and clicking Name Manager. You can delete it from there if you are sure you don't need it. In general, you should click Yes to the prompt that you got, but it depends on the exact way the name is used. Does this help?

Yes. You never give up your right to amend.

I have a new computer, sitting in a box under my dining room table, waiting for me to have TIME to set it up! Good luck, Lion!

Consolidated companies? Division? Subsidiary? DBA? Do you know of any relationship such as identical shareholders?

He shale overcome, but make sure he doesn't take you for granite.

double groan..

Dear Lord, just let them go back to the forms we know. Amen.

Oh no! You have more issues than I can imagine. I do hope you can get it all completed then breathe, breathe, and promise yourself that you come first next time. Good luck!

So, in the wee hours of the morning as I finished every scrap of paper that I have for our joint return, I realize I don't have anything from Morgan Stanley: my IRA distribution, my SEP distribution with QCD, and Steve's investment account. When I plug in last year's totals to see what's going to happen to our returns, we're going to owe a bunch! I leave an email for our broker and a huge note for hubby and get a little sleep. When I awake, our broker had uploaded .pdf files for me. Then hubby found our paper copies still in their mailed envelope in his basket of bills to pay! He'd opened it but stuffed the papers back in their envelope months ago. Hope he doesn't have any corrected 1099s in his bill-pay basket. Also, he has five pages of trades! Our broker can't get me an Excel today. I have Scan & Flow, but old scanner broke and haven't set up the new. I guess I'm entering totals only for each security and hoping for the best. All-in-One is also broken (just receives faxes but won't send or copy or scan to my computer or a flash) so I can't attach a .pdf. But, maybe I can cull the pages I need from the broker's upload... Tomorrow, I'll decide if I'm keeping hubby!! And, in November I'm shopping for a computer, copier, color printer, etc. At least I nursed my computer through this season and my black only printer for tax returns is OK. Toner and paper just now arrived from Staples. Now, if IL will accept a direct debit from a non-resident, I don't have to finish before the PO closes.

You definitely have way more patience than I do! I have several long term non filers that tell me that they never throw anything away and have all the information. However they never bring me anything, so I won't worry about them until they bring their stuff in if they ever do, since it's been more than 12 years since either one has filed !

Sounds like a rock-solid plan to me.