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I think I can top yours, last week client is slowly emailing me their documents and that he would like to get it out of the way as soon as possible As Jack has said before, your emergency is not mine.

I'm getting a good yield per acre on my corn crop this fall. Just a coincidence, I'm sure!

"Yes, we were covered by health insurance." "I need the amount you paid in premiums." "204 a month." "Did you get your coverage thru the marketplace?" "Yes." SOOOOOOOO, now instead of self-employed health insurance deduction, I am telling them how to get a 1095-A and wondering how much PTC they are going to pay back.

"I will put your return at the bottom of the stack of 35 other returns that have come in in the last 3 days. I will contact you when your return is complete."

Got one like that now and it's making me crazy. I just want to be finished!

Don't we all have our humor/horror stories of the sluggards who suddenly get frantic but still dribble paperwork in at a slow trickle. If they stopped sending emails begging for updates and got the missing info to us instead, they'd be done way faster. Sigh.

Yeah, they have one. He's gonna get the law changed. /s

Is it time to buy more acreage in that back field yet?

Now, now, Rita. Just give her a hug.

Well, I will do that after I hug them for losing the $%^& 1095-A. And being surprised that making $20,000 more than last year will affect their subsidy. They are supposed to stay poor for all this to work.

I just let the answering machine pick up my favorite. She's saying, for the 10th year in a row, "OMG, I have been so busy, if I get my stuff to you by Friday can you get my return done?!" And I will not see her Friday.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/windows-7-update-solution/f39a65fa-9d10-42e7-9bc0-7f5096b36d0c?auth=1

Remember to tell them to blame their legis-vermin - not you - for the delay, aggravation, and cost.

I am resurrecting this old thread as I have two election commission members, each works every year, going to meetings, training poll workers, working at the polls, etc. They each made $1705 in 2015, and the SSA threshold amount for election workers for 2015 is $1,600, meaning every dollar was subject to FICA. The county puts this in Box 3 of Form 1099-Misc. Every. Year. (It should be on a W-2, I know, but, I'm not chasing that rabbit.) So, to satisfy the tax gods, this belongs on Sch C, does it not? https://www.ssa.gov/slge/election_workers.htm https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-governments/election-workers-reporting-and-withholding

(Journal Of Accountancy) - The IRS notified tax practitioners and taxpayers who use many IRS e-services that it is strengthening the authentication process for identifying users and that the new, more stringent procedures will require existing users to re-register. http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2016/sep/irs-services-authentication-procedures-201615248.html

Why are you talking to my answering machine? Of course that's what I'll tell her when she drops off. Until then, I got stuff to do.

Your client doesn't have tax attorney? Hopefully your hourly rate is equal to a tax attorney rate, last time my associated contacted a tax attorney, cost him $150 for a 10 minute question.

I do, and I have posted the no-client version a couple of times but would be happy to do so again. I use it just for tax prep, but it certainly could be configured with whatever metric you want to track. What it does not do is warn you of deadlines looming.

How complex do you want? For instance, the IRS has a calendar to download with all the various tax deadlines to keep on your computer. I think you can add to it. Or, my web site comes with a calendar with tax deadlines already entered. I used to then add my personal items, but continue to rely on my Filofax mainly. But, you could put all your client deadlines, personal appointments, anything on it, and have it accessible on your computer and from anywhere you have an internet connection. Check with what you already have in your tax prep software or web site or email provider or optional modules that work with what you already have. I think Catherine or someone on this board (maybe more than one) had a good work-in-progress spreadsheet. Excel allows you to create the fields you want and need for your own purposes.

Thank you, Judy. I feel like 95% of tax preparers would slap it on Line 21 because they would get away with it. Maybe 96. The LAST thing we should be doing is trusting people to prepare forms correctly. They don't.

Yes, I would put that on Sch C.

Not only -- they work on the scared, too. The very success of these scams is a testimony of the mean-spirited and over-eager tactics the IRS has used in the decades of its existence. If they were not ham-handed and holding a well-deserved reputation of unreasonableness, these scams would NOT work. (That does not mean crooks would not find another way to scam people; they would. But it would take more effort on their part to succeed in stealing.)

Thanks, Elrod. Also, and sorta related, if you become an EA (and maybe if you renew, I don't know) you need to login to your PTIN account and update your credentials.

Looks like the judge was following the directives of the divorce papers, so her choices were to sign or be in contempt of court. The bottom line is she signed the form so the dependents go to her ex.