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1.5 miles, 4 stop lights and it can take anywhere from 4-8 minutes. Really burns my britches when it's 8 minutes too. I drive it 2x per day each way because I go home for lunch. My grandfather was a farmer and when we were talking about our commutes one day he commented it took him 2 hours to commute some days. 30 minutes at the hardware store. 30 minutes at the coffee shop. 30 minutes at the grain elevator. 30 minutes back at the house tell my grandmother all the news and THEN he finally arrived at work. Longest mile ever.

Here's my view on Post Office days.

18 miles, 25 minutes. It's my podcast listening time... unless I'm fed up with the world, then I crank up some hard rock. I take the scenic route out of town to avoid school buses. It's a mile longer, but I'd rather see this than the back of a school bus.

Depends on whether I go thru the Post Office first. If not, fifteen minutes.

60 miles - an hour and 15 minutes on non-snow days; an hour and a half with weather. Up until 2 and a half years ago, I had a 5 to 7 minute commute. But in anticipation of retiring someday, we moved to a piece of God's country. Believe it or not, being there at the beginning and ending of the day makes the commute tolerable.

14 seconds to get from my bedroom to my office downstairs. I used to do it in 9 seconds, but I am getting older now.

About 30 seconds, just have to go thru garage to get to my office, sometimes a minute depending on traffic!

Less than 5 seconds. I have to go all the way downstairs. Sometimes, I get dressed first.

Looks beautiful. Why don't you wean your clients to more remote methods so you can work from home, or closer to home? And, sit in your yard when the bears are willing to share it with you?!

Breakfast can be a mess... Sometimes the dogs head out the same time I step across the hall. If there is a jam in the hallway, I work remotely from bed until it clears. My lovely wife of 31 years delivers breakfast, after the dogs are fed..

11 miles, 15 minutes (give or take a few).

30 miles, 50 minutes more or less depending on snow, stray livestock, deer,etc.

Also, my preference has rubbed off on our kids. One just moved to a three minute walk from his office (he can see it from his apartment) because the 2 hours a day on a nearly free bus was wasted time for him, and the one is about ten minutes from his place of work. My parents had more than an hour each way for most of my youth... latch key was not something I wanted to continue.

Some peoples commute can be very physical...............

I live about 11 miles away from the office, and it usually takes between 15 and 20 minutes. Mornings the biggest problem is the school buses; afternoons, the problem is getting out of the driveway here at the office. Unless I get behind a tractor or a log truck - then all bets are off.

A few seconds to walk to my home office. I do NOT get dressed first, just add a sweatshirt and slippers to my jammies. When clients are expected, I do dress! But, I don't have to open the door to unexpected clients, because I have a large mail slot in my front door for drop-offs. Also, I have a couple biz clients where I go to their site and wear clothing. Those trips, which vary from weekly to monthly, are 20-35 minutes long, barring construction, accidents, etc. I time those for afternoon or late morning arrivals and departures in the evening after the thick of rush hour, and can drive to one of those sites entirely on back roads.

30 seconds for me to the basement, faster if I fall down the stairs.

Thanks! It is more beautiful than the picture portrays! And we (my wife works here with me) are trying to spend more time there. I hired a part-time CPA to be in the office when I am not. Tax season has me here 5 days per week, but after April 15th, we will be in the office just two or three days per week.

Why couldn't they have left Other and just add Various? That seems like the better solution.

I detest caps everywhere except tax returns. It mostly has to do with on screen reading and small fonts on tax forms.

1 mile. 3 to 6 minutes. 4 stoplights. I'm with Roberts. 'Really Burns My Britches' when it's 6 minutes. That is hilarious, Roberts. I'm going to file that away for future use! My grandfather was and father still is exactly on your grandfather's commute schedule! I'm from KS, but sounds like we have the same sort of hometown situation.

Stairs. Careful if you get a new pair of work shoes (slippers). My latest pair has a slightly longer sole in front, and I tripped going UP stairs.

Riiiiight. I'm advising her to wear a disguise while driving....

One Mile - 4 minutes

My office is a mile from my house. I usually work shifted hours because of traffic; 10AM to 7PM - at which time, it's about three minutes in either direction. If I tried to get here at 8AM, it would take at least an extra fifteen minutes due to the backup at two nasty left turns (even though I go right at one of them). On the rare occasion I have left at 5PM, I can sit at the end of the parking lot for 4-5 minutes waiting for traffic to clear to let me turn out - but the way back only has one less-than-nasty left so that doesn't take more than ten minutes. Two winters ago, when the snow piles were too high to see safely at the corners, I took the (very!) long way around and that's an easy fifteen minutes with traffic, lights, and extra distance - it takes a route around a golf course and conservation land, so it's more like 5-6 miles.

To the firm where I work part time, 26 miles, 35 minutes. At my home office, 1 minute as including pouring my beverage.

SLOW... Fast.....

From Return Manager Choose Options Choose Preference Choose Open return Uncheck the box for "Display Intelliconnect Tool Tips." This will not change a return you have open. You will need to close it and open it again. This should stop them from appearing.

Your software should do the heavy lifting after you tell it the date your client became a NY resident, but some forms to look for TR-579-IT is the NY version of 8879 IT-201-V is the payment voucher IT-203 is the NRPY base form IT-203-D should flow from the federal Schedule A IT-2 details the W-2s IT-360.1 for moving into or out of NYC (NYC tax is calculated, but flows to IT-203; just a separate schedule and not a separate return for NYC) Yonkers has their own schedule, also. IT-2105.9 if underpaid If your client had any NY-sourced income while still an IL resident or IL-sourced income after a NY resident, you'll be using more columns in the allocation. If the company did not change/client does not have separate W-2s, you'll need a paystub with year-to-date information close to when he left IL/moved to NY to allocate his wages between the two states. I usually do a spreadsheet and then input the income items: wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, etc. I proofread on the forms and not from the input screens to make sure everything flowed where I expected it to, nothing doubles, nothing is missing, the amounts from the two states add up to his federal, etc. Moving expenses go on NY as the state he moved to, if the company did not reimburse him for deductible moving expenses. Your software should flow everything or almost everything after you prepare the federal and give NY the date and allocate anything your software cannot. I don't have any NY residents currently (moved to CT &/or NJ), but come back with any specific questions and hope a NY preparer jumps in.

I'm not convinced her tax home is VA. Where does she do her work? You said "other states." Read up on tax home. Her primary residence could be in VA.

I have 100% success with the post-dated check thing. I don't deposit it until that date or after. I only have a couple and they are repeat clients. BTW, if you have any doubt about the check's validity, take it to THEIR bank after the day it is dated, and inquire whether it is good or not. I took a check one time at a yard sale, and suspiciously felt that it might not be good, went to the bank drive-in window on two occasions and asked if it was good -- it wasn't either time -- so I asked whether a specific time of the month might be better, and teller said "Try on the 1st." I was there johnny-on-the-spot and got my money! I think this would work only if the check is made to you, and not to a company -- but you never know.

My office and house are also 9 miles apart. Morning commute is about 20 - 30 minutes; afternoon can vary from 15 - 45.

I have a feeling they would send a wet noodle thru the mail, maybe one to us and one to the taxpayer, and say, "Hit yourself with this, we're not refunding a tax that you owed and paid. Sorry that your neighbor got out of it. Don't be hatin."

I agree, if you can prove insolvency then you client is insolvent and option 2 would apply.

Guess I am the odd one out here - I absolutely *detest* all-caps and stay away from it as much as possible. I find it exceedingly hard to read and annoying to deal with. But that's just me.

This is not an error. Dependents are instructed to leave line 61 blank in the Instructions to Form 1040, p. 51. Very bottom of 3rd column. You're good. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf

Use word of mouth advertising. If you want new clients, tell your best clients that you have space for a few good new clients. Tell them you want more clients just like them, or in their profession, or in their neighborhood, or.... That way you stand a good chance of getting more clients like your best clients. Referrals are better than strangers who find you online.

I wonder what they'd do with an amended return that removes the penalty?

She might owe in all the states she works in, just like an entertainer or athlete. Her job location is each tour. Not sure where that makes her tax home.

Cancelled debt on a second or vacation home IS taxable.

Yes. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor sheets of plate glass could prevent that lady from getting that timely postmark.

Where I live I will not accept a post-dated check as then if it bounces I have no recourse with the sheriff. By accepting a post-dated check it is deemed that I knew it would not be honored and accepted it anyway. The only recourse with the sheriff on a bad check is if it is currently dated, and it also helps to have a copy of the issuers drivers license.

I am with you Joe...Let us turn off the Blue Triangles. I know how to search if I need too. I do not need to be reminded on EVERY line item. Sheesh. Stupid programmers. I can build it, I don't have to use it... Rich

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