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Truthfully, I don't understand a lot of this security parlance. I, however, do feel secure in the fact that nobody other than my IT person and myself touch my work computer. Even with my office addition, I am running out of room. We just somehow make it work. This week leading up to tax filing day has been extremely stressful for various reasons. People are bringing in problems that should have been addressed months ago. Sales tax numbers are coming in late.; as are numbers for 1099 filing. I hope to take it one day at a time. Other peoples' failure to be timely is not my responsibility. My eyesight is fine as of now. There is no cure. I have a condition inherited from my father. However, in his late 80s and early 90s he let it get him down. I won't do that. I only hope that along with his eyes, I got his brain because at 92 when we lost him, he was sharp as a tack mentally. I was just cleared of nearly nine years of any recurrence of cancer. Which would I rather have? You all know the answer to that. I hope that each and every person who frequents this board has a season that is nearly trouble free. Some of us have been around for a long time, but if we don't do it, who will? Happy Taxing to all of you.

Sounds like a tax planning question, better than coming to you after the fact.

The intent of TCJA was to eliminate the federal tax subsidy of state and local development incentives. Yes you are correct. It is gross income per section 61.

Judy, did you see this? https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/tax/articles/tax-reform-impacts-on-section-118.html

I attended a webinar hosted by an ex IRS agent recently. She said ALL S returns with zero or low shareholder wages are flagged by computer for an eyes on review. First agent can accept return as is or send it for further review. It then goes through a couple more people to decide if it gets audited or not. If SH is taking large distributions and essentially no wage, chance of it being audited are increased. IMO basing wage on IRA amount is borderline fraud. Proceed with extreme caution if you are in any way condoning or advising on doing this.

I have separate log ins with both authenticators but I used two different email addresses to do that - I used my work email with logmein and my personal email with idme

Technically, I agree with Dennis. However if your client depends on distributions of profit for their month to month living expenses then you have a reasonable compensation problem which would cause me to terminate the client unless they actively increased their wages!

Copied from the website of The IRS Mind: "Appealing adjustments to the IRS Independent Office of Appeals: Some audits end up in disagreements with !he IRS auditor. The first step is to request a conference with the auditor’s manager. If agreement cannot be reached with the IRS auditor, then the taxpayer can appeal to the IRS Independent Office of Appeals. If an agreement cannot be reached in Appeals, the taxpayer can also timely request a review by the courts." Your auditor is playing hardball to see who blinks first. As long as your client doesn't get nervous, hang in there, but don't over promise to your client.

To soothe a little. Major companies get breached because they offer a better ROI for the baddies. I am not obligated to any entity to prove I am secure. I am obligated to myself. I use a top of the line physical firewall which I set to be very strict for my work machine. Likely, it is as good as any :commercial grade" firewall, as I actually set it tight. Monitored firewall is likely OK, but I would bet some amount they use the same settings for most of their clients (a default of sorts) to keep their support simple. I suspect what you are really paying for is someone else to be in the liability chain (if they were not smart enough to waiver out). On the other hand, there is at least one locality who has legislated "security" (likely for their own political perceived gain) where data is required to be in the physical control of the person, and stored within the jurisdiction. No online backups for those folks, and in the real world, worse security.

These situations waste more time and cause more confusion than almost any other. The exemption isn't what it used to be and HOH can be worthless if the parent makes too much money. As in any tax situation, it all depends on the numbers. In so many cases, they are living together anyway and are willing to perjure themselves for the sake of a larger refund. Therefore, the Due Diligence burden falls on our shoulders.

Notice came out yesterday that IRS is simplifying their letters. NOW we are in trouble... every time they simplify something it makes it worse. Remember the postcard tax return turned into 8 pages.