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I don't think you are doing something wrong. I know how computers work and to avoid issues like this, I am scheduling appointments for Feb 15 for all my clients who have houses and use schedule A. I have schedule someone for Feb 13th because he is traveling on the 14th. That's the only exception I am making. I do not want this to become a nightmare for me at the end of Feb. Yes, my clients are dropping their documents but I am not asking them to sign anything until I am ready (allowed) to efile.

Welcome back Jainen. I forgot to realize that the child lived with both parents at the beginning of the year. My answer will be correct for next year if parents don't sleep in the same room.

Don't downgrade Windows 7 to XP mode for no reason. If you do that, you might as well buy a 3 year old computer. I am running Windows 7 64bit and programs that do not run on 64 bit operating system are installed using the 32 version automatically. I have 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 running properly. I am running IE on both 32 and 64 bit and I have not installed either.

I had that problem but lately, I have been asked if I want to release the state when I received efile acknowledgements. I think the program was not doing it by itself automatically. The other choice is to go to each return HELD and check if its Fed counterpart is accepted. You need to open that return, create the state efile and click do not hold it. Go to efile manager and efile/send the created efile files.

Reduce basis by this amount.

Maybe Catherine needs to post a disclaimer to avoid any liabilities. lol

I spend about 30-60 minutes after the snow cleaning my car. I can see your cars are cleaned by default. Nice city.

Yes, he can use the loss at 3K yearly.

Once the client signs form 8879 you have a time limit to transmit that return, correct?

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I have been telling my people to come back on Feb 14 and I told them that no one with itemized deductions will be able to file their taxes before St. Valentine's day. I was happy that a guy who doesn't sign returns and he prepares schedule A for everyone with prefiled child care and/or non-cash donations was not going to be able to get my clients. My thought was, since he doesn't efile, he will be out of business for the first month and I WILL BE efiling my clients since a few of them itemize. I was wrong. The guy and his workers are running at full force and printing returns and telling people to mail them. What will the IRS do when they get this returns before the 14th? They go in a pile anyways and they will be processed in a couple of weeks. While I am telling my people to come back on Feb 14th, this guy is finishing all returns. My clients think I am a lier and people are picking up their papers and going there. What do you think the IRS will do if they get a return with schedule A today? Remember, that preparer doesn't efile or sign the returns. The max that will happen is that the return will be returned. I think the IRS should NOT have posted Schedule A on their website until Feb 14. They should NOT allow software developers to have sch A approved until that date. I believe my competetion got a hand from the IRS this year.

I am pretty sure you offered her to get a FEIN.

While I was checking the preferences on ATX, I think I saw a check mark "create all returns using MeF"? Do we have to check that?

Based on my statistics, 99.99% of my clients keep the old number. I only have 100 clients.

Check page 25 + http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1345.pdf

This is what I do and I believe I follow the rules. 1.- New clients, I assign a number based on their date of birth and I select that it was an ERO selected number and they sign form 8879. 2.- If Taxpayers comes back next year, I tell them if they want to select a new number or used the old one. Most of the time they accept the old number and I select that they entered their pin on form 8879. 3.- If they don't come back next year, I don't enter anything. I think everybody does as I do on option 3 above.

He will NOT get CTC since he will state that the child lived with him only 5 months. She will get HH AND EIC. No one gets CTC.

Thank you. My question was about his primary residency for energy credits.

This is my logic. Let's say that parents paid $2,000 for child's education. Later, the parents got scholarship for $5,000 and used that money for their child's dorm rent. The parents MUST report income for $5K. If they qualify to claim the child's exemption, they will qualify for education credit. Do you agree? It is the same situation. The child will pay taxes on the $1,500 and this has nothing to do with the fact that the child might not pay any taxes on this money.

I am going to start using this phrase more fequently... it seems to be a straight forward situation on both cases. 1.- He has not started his business yet, so no deduction for 2010. Next year you will have startup and (maybe) organizational costs. 2.- Same rule applies when someone dies or is born in the tax year. He can claim father and qualify as HH if he provided more than 50% of father support for those 5 months father was alive. If he doesn't qualify for HH,he can claim him if he provided more than 10% of his support and others that provided more than 10% of support sign that they will not claim the father.

It seems straight forward to me. Child reports $1500 as income. If parents qualify to claim him as a dependent, they will claim him and use $1,367 to calculate the education credit. If parents got those $1500, then it would be another story. Parents would have $133 extra salary AND no education credit.

In the past, the live person that saw all the entries on the return was a data clerk without any knowledge of taxes. So, efile would be more efficient than the old way of doing business by the IRS.

Energy credit

ATA = Accredited Tax Advisor ATP = Accredited Tax Preparer ABA = Accredited Business Accountant ARA = Accredited Retirement Advisor I see some people have EA and all of those acronyms after their names. How do they get them? Any ABA, ATA, ARA or ATP accredited on this site?

A maintenance engineer is provided with an apartment by the employer because he is on call 24-5. He is off on Saturday and Sunday and goes to his house in another state which is about 20 miles away. His car and his house are registered in that state but his children go to a public school where he works. Is his house his primary residence?