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I have two identical pairs of earrings. My husband like them so well that he gave them to me two Christmases in a row, forgetting that he had bought them the first Christmas.

Would you like to sell a pair? I still can't find the necklace and jewelry store doesn't have it anymore. She has a hair appointment tomorrow, 3 hours (the full boat, color and all) so I will be tearing apart the house.

This will work jklcpa.................

Yes, excellent advice, always have a backup, and don't think to yourself, I'll remember where it is. My wife's birthday is Friday and she saw a nice necklace that she pointed out to me months ago. I bought it right away and hid it somewhere. Hid it so good I can't find it. I wish you posted months ago, you may have saved me from buying two necklaces.

Poor Bill.... I can see him now, taking advantage of those 3 hours... Good luck Bill...

or what the clients are willing to do.

"Perhaps the best way to do everything right..." This is a major part of my daily work struggles. What I mean is the letting go of what my experience/training/preferences tell me is "right", and accepting I cannot control what others feel is acceptable.

Locking drop boxes are great. Be sure to write down the key's code and remember where that is, or don't lose the key like I did. I now expect to find the key tomorrow.

It goes on the 1041. This blog from a professional CPE site explains it clearly and has the cites to back it up: https://www.taxcpe.com/blogs/news/cancellation-of-debt-of-a-decedent

We used Virtru for awhile but had problems as well. Now with SendInc and having no issues, except the emails expiring in 7 days and clients procrastinating. Sendinc is not an email program, it is a portal the client logs into with a password of their choosing and downloads the file. Firefox Send works the same way, but you can skip the password if you choose. Both are free.

Don't necessarily disagree with Judy in a perfect world. And I agree totally that a single woman's living expenses, consistently running about $2,000 per month should be nothing but guaranteed payments. And the aforementioned "perfect world" should be a worthy goal, and not unattainable simply because we are looking for excuses not to do what needs to be done. But those of us in practice cannot force partners to draft a partnership agreement. Self-described partnerships occur when a couple of guys show up with missing teeth and tell us "Duh--we're sorta partners." And distributions are not planned or declared but instead result in the same fashion as "constructive receipts." What's worse, they almost never in proportion to anything resembling a declared "split." This leads to bizarre detail in the equity section. Perhaps the best way to do everything right would be to simply refuse to prepare any partnerships for partners who cannot supply a partnership agreement, and I can't blame anyone if they take this position. Around my part of the country, this will result in partners leaving me and going to shifty-eyed Sam on the other side of town. Will not result in partners drafting a partnership agreement. The particular partnership in question has been making minimal profits since its inception in 2014 - just enough for the managing partner to draw out living expenses - and yes I have always treated these as guaranteed payments. However the partnership just won a major contract which will geometrically increase their profit beginning in 2019, and we are planning for the future. A partnership agreement was drafted in 2014 but so much has happened since then that the agreement has not been able to morph into anything relevant in 2019. Thanks to all - especially for Judy for shining the light on proper practice.

It would probably depend on the legal vehicle that named the deceased brother executor and whether a successor was also named.

Likely, unless the return is a PDF, you would have to come up with something to allow printing in a close format. (Note, even PDF is not perfect, it cannot be guaranteed to match what the author intended, since PDF software now allows the end used to adjust the file, such as line width, fonts, etc., and that does not even consider the fact that printer software is imperfect - such as really margin accuracy.) PDF is the one format you can count on to be close, assuming the end user does not muck up the settings. Personally, I would not trust any built into PDF creation software password and/or encryption. PDF security is said to have been compromised, at least once recently IIRC. Since it is a common format, it is reasonable to believe there are hackers constantly looking to break the security. With that said, PDF security, with a kept up to date creation system, is likely good enough to say you took reasonable steps to be secure, if you are comfortable with that, and with your business insurance :). For sending something securely via email, PGP type systems as Catherine mentioned, are likely reliable, provided the system in use handles the questions from the end user (unless you want to take on that support). On the other hand, when I get "secure" messages from our charge card processor, it comes in the form of a message, with a link, for which I have to sign in to see the message. There is no support needed, as it is very clear what I have to do. It is a bit of a PITA, since the message eventually is shown to me as a tif file (an image), but I am completely comfortable their system is as secure as can be (since it contains data one would not want in the wild). While I do not use ATX, what G'maBee said about a client portal is very likely some sort of secure method to contact your clients, and possibly share data. Hopefully it is some sort of system like what our charge card processor uses, not just a way to send "secure" PDF files.

There is a difference between encrypting EMAIL and encrypting FILES SENT by email. If you want email itself encrypted there are the suggestions above, and Symantec has a product "PGP Encryption" that will encrypt the email itself. There are other programs that require keys - one public, that you can send to anyone so they can decrypt your email, and a private one that is the other half of the protocol, that you use before you send email out.

Try getting Adobe Pro X, you can encrypt the attachments and setup a password.