Margaret CPA in OH

Thanks, Catherine, for again sharing your knowledge. I have had a Paypal account for several years but hardly ever use it. I just thought the Square thing was cute even though I couldn't use it. Now I can't use it either because it won't scan my card. Hmm, back to my nonused Paypal account and, of course, those checks that clients have been using for year. In fact, I have never even received cash. And no check has ever bounced. Of course, there were those #$$%^&& clients that refused to pay me. Good riddance though to bad clients.

Curses! I thought I had it all set up and tried my credit card. It kept saying to swipe faster but I think it is because it isn't all plastic. It's very heavy and doesn't work on a handful of other machines. Guess I'll have to find plastic somewhere.

Start the program, click on Support then About. It will say right near the top the Program Version. I have 12.3.112.1.

Oh, phone download! I guess I need to do that now. Time to get back to the website to review what I have and how to use it. At least I found the little thingy. Where does it connect to the phone? Funny, send you my credit card. Right.

I upgraded in October to Win 7 Pro, 8 GB RAM and i5 processor. I have zero complaints with speed - see comments above. The hard drive is 931 GB, your basic terrabyte, I think. I have my computers built by the local major geek. He actually hosts radio program called Geek Talk. He has built my last 4 computers. This one costs $1515. I like that he knows every single part inside and all the software and how it is connected to my periferals, etc.

I got this several months ago but didn't realize I needed a smart phone. At that time I had only a dumb phone but went to the dark side over Christmas with a great deal. And my minutes plan is grandmothered in so I could go back to 1000 minutes without data if I choose to do so. Anyway, your message reminded me and I found it! No idea how to use it and don't know where the instructions are but can probably get that online. For some reason I decided it might be useful although no client has ever asked me about paying any other way than check. It will be good to see if others use it.

It has been interesting and a bit disheartening reading the above tales of woe. I had earlier rolled over only my own with slowness admittedly but then just stopped doing anything with the program except updating the program and forms every few days when I knew it wasn't feasible to do any productive work as yet. Mine is a more complicated return involving depreciation, etc. Today I decided to do the latest update. I then opened my return. It took 1 minute 10 seconds to get to the point where it listed all the forms not available then another 10 seconds to complete. I closed it and tried again. The updated return opened in 8 seconds to the forms list and 10 seconds after that. I am not going to complain about under 20 seconds to open this return. I then rolled over my son's return which is much simpler. I took about 4 seconds. I must be the luckiest ATX user on the board and I hope it continues and spreads to all of you!

And that, of course, is a principal reason for the existence of this board. How fortunate we are for those who created it (thanks, Eric and any other folks with input) and monitor it (thanks, KC, and any others with input) and use it with grace, knowledge, humor and intelligence (not necessarily in that order). What sorts of mayhem have you, JB, and JRS been creating? The speaking truth offerings or what? I don't imagine that either of you gentlemen has been rude. Perhaps the sensibilities of those monitors is more delicate than should be.

Jainen is, as usual, correct. I have 2 clients that have been in assisted living arrangements. One had a buy-in and the other was a simple monthly payment. In each case, I asked for and received from the respective facilities their allocation of the percentage or dollar amount of the monthly fee that was applicable to the assisted part. For the buyin client, the facility provided the statement that went sort of "Actuaries, LLC has developed the amount of the respective fees that may be allocated to the cost of providing health care. This amount was developed by calculating the present value of contractual revenues and liabilities at the time of entry, and classifying expenses as medical and non-medical. Residents of XXX should apply this percentage to their monthly fees paid in 20xx. There is then a table for Life Care Residents. This place has 90% refundable contract arrangement, too. That entrance fee deduction is a one time thing, though. 20xx deductibility of: Single Couple Entrance Fees $20,077 $40,154 Monthly Services Fees $191 $382 For the monthly pay client, the facility has done the calculation showing the total amount paid and the percentage (in this case, 11.32%) that can be deducted For Assisted Living Residents and the amount that can be counted as deductible. This monthly pay facility is part of a multiple facility chain and wasn't familiar with this when I requested it the first year. They had never before been asked - go figure!

Good one! I know how he feels.

I find it interesting to think that those making, say, $375,000 are considered middle class. Until this, I never considered my self poor but am clearly now in the very lower middle class or upper poverty class. I must reorient my mindset.

Indeed, Merry Christmas to all and a most joyful and blessed New Year! How lucky we are to have each other here and we will surely need it this coming season. Thanks to each of you for all the gifts of your time and talents and expertise that you so generously share.

That was, indeed, amazing! I am lead coach for a group Sit to Fit, helping couch potatoes in 8 weeks training get to the finish line of a 5 km race. Our race is the Jingle Bell Run next Saturday so I forwarded to all for more inspiration. Thanks!

KC, know that you have never left our hearts, thoughts and prayers so they continue to support you as you face another challenge.

And when she gets her own, if the 1099 is issued in her husband's FEIN (although there is surely time to correct that for 2012), you can always include the income on her Sch. C (or appropriate business form) and state that it was reported under xx-xxxxxx. The reverse goes on his return. How have you reported this for the previous years?

Alas, how do we end bank fraud, mortgage fraud and investment fraud, among others? Would that some of those folks were jailed with lots of publicity. Without checking details, I think the amounts of money involved with far fewer people were considerable. I guess so long as we have people who want something for little or nothing no matter how much or little they already have, there will be fraud. I am glad that I don't usually have any EIC clients. The one I had one year was a contractor who fell off the roof mid year in an already bad year. Thankfully he has recovered as has his business for the most part.

What a beautifully expressed sentiment, Catherine. I beleive you have captured what we all feel about this group, for each other here. We are certainly blessed with this forum and each other on so many levels. This year will be a bit sadder here as we just buried my husband's mother Thursday. She died suddenly at lunch with friends of 75+ years. A good reminder to treasure your loved ones each and every day and be thankful for those near and far - and let them know. We seldom can tell when that last chapter will be written.

No, Magic Rub for sure.

Suddenly I could get in and post again and read replies. Initially nothing was posting so I was not aware that they eventually did make it through somehow. I do have patience but could not see that anything was happening and thought it was just my little warped world. This is my comfort zone and when I can't access it, I feel kinda lost and lonely...sorry for my anxiety. I'll go for a run now in this 70's weather.

I now see that the title to my post managed to make it and there are replies but all I can see are more of the same messages. Is there some cosmic being playing dastardly tricks on me? Maybe someone will reply to this post as it seems I can access only this one. Thanks!

I am trying to post a new topic without success so am trying now to see if I can post anything.

I am trying to post something without success so am trying different things to see if anything works.

I now see this when logging onto this site whether in IE, Chrome or Firefox and on different computers: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/base/ipsRegistry.php on line 486 Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/base/ipsRegistry.php on line 486 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 114 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 127 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 136 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 137 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 141 Jump to content

Anyone else experiencing strange things appearing at the top of the screen? This is what I see in Firefox, Chrome, and IE: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/base/ipsRegistry.php on line 486 Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/base/ipsRegistry.php on line 486 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 114 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 127 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 136 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 137 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/atx/public_html/conf_global.php:1) in /home/atx/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/formats/html/htmlOutput.php on line 141 Yesterday I could not even access the site but can even post a topic now but it is really hard to get around. Maybe Eric knows how to fix? It is on both my desktop and laptop computer so I think it isn't computer related. No other website is like this, either. Thanks! Jump to content

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