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Good luck to you Nico, everyone deserves a second chance. A friend of mine had a felony, did time and it was a big wake up call for him. He is now such a model citizen it makes me look bad. He's even got me picking up litter on Earth Day. All the best.

We're very happy with CrashPlan Pro but idrive looks good too.

I have been pretty happy with iDrive. It will either backup continually *or* on a schedule that you set and control. It will even power down your machine when the backup ends so you can set it to start at your usual leaving time. Reasonably quick. I have retrieved files with no issue. They even now have a full disk image (cold-metal restore backup) option although I use Acronis and an external drive (that then comes home with me) for that purpose.

We use Crash Plan Pro at the office as well as at home. We are also happy with it.

New Due Date for FBARs The new annual due date for filing Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) for foreign financial accounts is April 15. This date change was mandated by the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015, Public Law 114-41(the Act). Specifically, section 2006(b)(11) of the Act changes the FBAR due date to April 15 to coincide with the Federal income tax filing season. The Act also mandates a maximum six-month extension of the filing deadline. To implement the statute with minimal burden to the public and FinCEN, FinCEN will grant filers failing to meet the FBAR annual due date of April 15 an automatic extension to October 15 each year. Accordingly, specific requests for this extension are not required. (Please note: The due date for FBAR filings for foreign financial accounts maintained during calendar year 2016 is April 18, 2017, consistent with the Federal income tax due date.)

Review form 8867 for 2016, IRS has given you more chargeable homework to

Absolutely correct. We get hired to solve a problem. If it doesn't matter if the return is accurate, people who don't care about accuracy don't need us. We get back the ones who get audited. That's it.

This was the biggest year in terms of W2 volume that I have ever had at any of my day jobs. I just printed and uploaded 436 W2 forms and it took me less than one hour (most of that was printing time). The BSO process took me about 5 minutes to create the file in my payroll software and upload to the BSO website. I am going to get to see the Raiders play the Texans today. Too bad my Fresno State boy Derek Carr will not be playing. It was looking promising for the Raiders until he went down with that broken leg. Have a great weekend. Tom Newark, CA

But, that gives Connor Cook a chance!

Yesterday I called both vendors what is said above is true, ATX is blaming QB, but as Jack said, you cannot import XPS files from prior working years, the good news ATX will have it fixed by January 31, 207.

It is a legal term. In my example, the check cashing place has a properly endorsed check, no hint of fraud, and you have to honor it. Stop payment, loss claim, does not matter. You have to deal with the employee, and probably, at least at first, have to pay the employee as well as the check cashing place. Your recourse is only with the person the check was made out to... The third party gets PAID no matter what, if it meets the due course rules (and in practice, even if it does not, since it is likely cheaper to pay than to fight). https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/3/3-302 Likely examples and explanations by online search. Those that work in large payroll offices are familiar with this, as given enough volume and time, they will see it. Came up for me many years ago when a payroll check was :"washed". The party who got the "washed" check could have easily claimed the check met the HiDC rules. Thankfully, was only for someone I was preparing payroll for. The employer ended up paying both the employee (who must have lost the check) as well as the recipient of the washed check. It was a business with high turnover, and the employee turned over shortly after - I have no idea why... I did get to see the washed check. it was done very well. Lost "art" now, since anyone can print checks as long as they have a valid routing and account number. No more "Catch Me if You Can". Cash is the only way to safely pay employees - safely meaning no later risk of having to pay twice assuming some sort of valid proof of receipt is collected. There are still some who choose this method, and I have not seen any locality where cash is not allowed. If I were back in the days where I was paying lower paid employees with fair turnover, with my current knowledge, it would be cash payouts for me. (Secondary reason, the local officials would likely give me a concealed carry permit again, with cash carrying being the reason).

There are a bunch of us who have very similar lists. If we put those lists together end to end, there might be enough length to encircle the Capitol Building and prevent the legis-vermin from getting IN to cause more trouble for us! (I can dream can't I? )

The problem is that the people who do this aren't actually getting "refunds" they are getting money they never had - EITC and CTC. So if the government (you and I) wants to give them "free" money and the cost to get it comes out of the "free" money, they don't care. This is one reason I have never liked EITC. I have a whole list.