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From my heart to all of yours, have a wonderful New Year!!!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Many owners are also employees. Easy to use the ssa site to see if their personal earnings data is updated. Could be a way toonitor the data recording, or prove the data was actually recorded.

I pick up a few hours of free CE here and there. However the quality varies quite a bit from occasionally good to not very good. There are a number of free one hour classes that are a mixture of CE and the presenter marketing their services, which can get tiresome. Several times a year the IRS Small Business/Self Employed Division will have a free 2 hour class which is usually pretty good.

There's so much free CPE available that years ago I took over 80 hours one year. 40 for the current year, 40 to carry over into the next year. I've taken at least 40 each year since then so I still have the 40 carryover. If I suffer a minor tragedy and am unable to take CPE for a year, I'm still good to go.

Live long and prosper.

So I just finished the self study course. Got 78.57% so I passed. Nothing like doing it at the last minute!

I have had the first part happen 5 or 6 times years ago before I switched to filing online with the SSA, but it was always resolved by responding to the first letter and mailing in the W 3/W2s. Yeah, the Tax Advocate is swamped. At this point I think the best option would be for her to contact her Congressperson who usually has a designated staff person to handle tax issues. If you do that, you will need to have everything clearly documented and explained. They aren't going do research for you!

+ 2 CEs of Ethics EVERY year for EAs. But I hear that the OPR or whichever department renews our EA designation is understanding about illness (COVID seems to be reasonable cause for most things) and one-time errors -- if you contact them and make-up any shortage immediately. Also, if you're an NAEA member, you need 30 CEs per year, IIRC.

Happy, Healthy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone! May it be prosperous & healthy.

And the wait for parts can be a lot longer too.

A blessed, happy, and healthy year in 2023 to everyone here!