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Baby granddaughter at just over 8 months old, has her first little toofie. So exciting!

Received a CP 2000 referring to tax year 2019 in November Sent in a detailed response in December to Fresno Just received a letter acknowledging receipt of the correspondence saying that the IRS needed 90 more days to process. Maybe there is just a bit hope

In mid December a large online Payroll Platform, "Kronos" was hacked with a ransomware attack. Now 6 weeks later their payroll software still is not fully functional. There are a number of governmental agencies plus many non profit health care systems that were using this software for time keeping, human resource management and payroll. "A month-old ransomware attack is still causing administrative chaos for millions of people, including 20,000 public transit workers in the New York City metro area, public service workers in Cleveland, employees of FedEx and Whole Foods, and medical workers across the country who were already dealing with an omicron surge that has filled hospitals and exacerbated worker shortages. In the weeks since the attack knocked out Kronos Private Cloud — a service that includes some of the nation's most popular workforce management software — employees from Montana to Florida have reported paychecks short by hundreds or thousands of dollars, as their employers have struggled to manage schedules and track hours without the help of the Kronos software. Though Ultimate Kronos Group, the company that makes Kronos, says that it expects systems will be back online by the end of January, affected employers say they don't yet know for sure when they will actually be able to access their systems and information. The additional burden won't end once Kronos is back: Finance and human resources departments around the country face weeks of additional work bringing the manual records they have collected over a month or more back into the Kronos system. In the most severe cases, that backlog could delay issuing W-2s and other tax information." There is a long list of news articles about this hack!

An OS either works or it keeps you from working. You don't make money with your OS, you make it with your apps. I'm still on 8.1 on a 9 year old computer and I couldn't be happier. I may never use Win10 on my computer. Our server has 10 but it just hosts data. I skipped 7 entirely, along with all the failed named OS's from Microsoft like Millennium and Vista. XP was the first great OS from MS. 95 & 98 would freeze multiple times per day. Other OS's I've used in order were NEC, Oasis/TheOS, DOS and Xenix. I don't know what OS's the big mainframes used in college but it was likely something from IBM.

I don't see any specific residency requirement for RRC (as long as they meet the normal requirements needed to file a 1040 and claim dependents). Citizens living abroad would qualify. The 6-month requirement is for refundable CTC, but only requires one spouse to be resident in the U.S., so they would qualify for that as well.

Since one of the spouses was residing in the US for more than 6 months, I would request those $4,200. My bother's wife was waiting for her Visa for 2 years and both years they filed jointly. She was a student and it was very beneficial to my brother to file jointly. I applied for an ITIN and sent a letter signed by both stating that they agreed to file jointly as resident for tax purposes and that she was going to report world-wide income (which was 0). In your case, the strong requirement is valid social security number and by virtue of them signing a letter stating that they want to file jointly as residents for tax purposes, reporting income earned while abroad, they should be entitled to all benefits except those specifically ruled out such as EIC. I was waiting for this post to be answered by someone else but it didn't happened. At least I will bump it up.

She wants what mama & dada have to eat *so* badly. They give her teeny tiny pieces.

Technically, you are not allowed even to admit the person is your client without a signed/dated Section 7216 Disclosure Authorization. You also have to be careful *who* you talk to for other reasons. One of my elderly clients has 3 kids; 1 close, 1 relatively nearby, and 1 several states away. The one who's close also has a history of verbal abuse! It's the one several states away who is my contact (with S7216 etc). The relatively nearby one just has no head for numbers, but at least is not verbally abusive. Did I know any of this before the S7216? Nope. Just names/addresses that were needed for a gift return some years earlier.

If ATX advised against using Windows 11 why . . . . . . . ?

If MN starts with AGI, then no. On 2020 federal returns the deduction was before AGI. On 2021 it's after AGI.

OK...Catherine... there goes the Groceries...

I've been on 8.1 since 2013 and will wait until support is dropped to move to 11. I just need an OS to work and not cause any problems. It's my software that makes me money. An OS is just an expense, especially if it's problematic and wastes your time.

Keep is simple. For most, do not install a new OS, update to a new computer with the new OS preinstalled. Even without a new OS, upgrading computers at least every 5 years is a solid plan. We, here, are talking about computers used to generate income, so remaining reasonably current is a normal and expected cost of doing business. If the above is objectionable, then make sure, whatever your preferred method, to always use an OS still supported by the maker. W8 is good through Jan 2023, W10 through Oct 2025. Those with the requirement to guard information of others likely have a legal obligation to do so. As for W11, if your computer cannot pass the upgrade requirements, it likely is not as current of a model as you believed. I have a surface pro 6 which passes, and an HP all in one, several years old, and it updated to W11 with zero issues.

I just updated - no real problems. Internet Explorer is completely gone and replaced 100% with Edge. That seemed like a problem but you can use an IE Mode which met my requirements. I have several sites I visit that require IE and simply do not work with Edge but the mode designation for those sites works.

Even more wonderful, because yesterday I learned that a long time friend had passed on; his heart problems caught up with him. Yesterday was a bad day, and I wandered around in a fog all day doing things poorly and eventually gave up on trying to accomplish anything.