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I hope you have been paid. And I hope you will send this client packing! Any client who makes my fee dependent on their tax outcomes is not someone I want to deal with. If you let them get away with making that statement, they will make it again the next time they don't like the outcome. Tom Longview, TX

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2019/sep/tax-claim-child-dependency-by-noncustodial-parents/

I had to uninstall and re-install my ATX software. Not sure if the thunderstorm is exactly why, but I am blaming the thunderstorm. So far I have only had to deal with 2023 and 2024. Haven't tried to open anything older yet. Kind of a pain. Has anyone else had trouble lately?

If you want, I will plug in the new income numbers. If you give me: total AGI with the taxable SSA included, gross SSA, and taxable portion of the SSA I should be able to get the worksheets to show the amounts on their proper respective lines. Nothing else changed?

They have substantial losses which will shield them from federal and state income tax for years. The tax due was SE tax for which they have no protection. After deducting 2024 expenses along with depreciation they owed that. She came in today and had reconsidered her objections.

I think these partnerships that investment advisors purchase, especially within IRA’s, must pay really generous commissions. After all, SOMEBODY needs to benefit from all this mess created by the k-1’s.

Got this "request for help" this morning. It's not even good enough to be AI-generated.

I read somewhere that the errors in these phishing emails are intentional. They are not looking for sophisticated educated people to respond because they are less likely to fall for what they are selling. Instead, they want people who read carelessly or are not very educated. The errors in the emails help them to weed out the people unlikely to fall for their scam.

On rereading my post I can affirm what others have said. Cattle are bringing more money. A local farmer's wife brought me their 2024 figures which had doubled and even tripled their sales figures from prior years. On calling to advise their returns were complete she asked if I was getting them back a lot of money! I have prepared that return for about ten years with perhaps one in profit. On being told they owed money I was abruptly informed I would not be paid !! I had her review her figures only to find she had failed to bring a $50,000 plus feed bill. This cut the bill but they will still owe some tax. I would not be surprised if I don't see them next year.

Fixed assets: under disposition, put converted to personal use and that will stop the depreciation. You can leave them in fixed assets, handy if they're ever sold.

He receives the items, so his basis in them is the amount of the remaining depreciation. Why was a farm reporting on Sch C instead of F?

I just got off the phone with the IRS. A refund check will be issued in about 4 weeks. After my initial call, I spent about 30 minutes waiting for a call back. It took about 10 minutes to verify my client and my own identity. It took another 10 minutes for the agent to go into another system and schedule the refund check. He didn't know why the scheduled Direct Deposit never happened.