Jack from Ohio

ERC,

When preparing your own retur, anyone of us will tell you what exactly to do. You do not have to tells us the exact figures just ask. Also a lot of us will do your return for free, afterall you are not pay for your valuable service on this forum.

Ditto here. Just say the word and I would gladly do your return, for no charge, to help repay you for your efforts here, because this forum has huge value to me, and many other preparers. Consider it my part to help this forum. Please keep up the good work.

If a client presents me a W-2, that he/she knows has an improper SS# on it because he/she chose to use it to circumvent the rules/laws concerning employment, is that not fraud by anyone's definition?? The reasons why a person chooses to use someone else's SS# are irrelevent to the fact that it is fraud. I do not see any gray area in this matter.

I don't see any fraud in preparing a return accurately reporting that a person properly identified by an ITIN earned wages that were improperly reported to a incorrect or false SSN. You are not assisting in a fraud -- the illegal act (if any) has already been committed by the employer/employee. Our obligations in a case like this is to accurately report what happened.

See http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/articl...=167635,00.html

I have a client... ...In the past we were not able to e-file these types of returns because of the social security number issue, not matching ect.... But I understood that starting this year we could.

I had a similar situation earlier in the year, and when I attempted to e-file the return it kept rejecting due to social security name mismatch...[/quote]

These actions do NOT adhere to the article you referenced. I choose NOT to do returns for anyone that has INTENTIONALLY been submitting FALSE information to circumvent the laws of our country. One wrong (illegal act) does not excuse another.

I have a client whose wife works at a local restaurant and received a W-2 issued in her name with a social security number that doesn't belong to her. She has applied for and received a ITIN number and I have prepared her and her husbands tax return.

In the past we were not able to e-file these types of returns because of the social security number issue, not matching ect.... But I understood that starting this year we could.

I had a similar situation earlier in the year, and when I attempted to e-file the return it kept rejecting due to social security name mismatch.

What I did is on the 1040 I used her ITIN number and on the W-2 field I used the social security number that was on the W-2. Did I do this correctly? Am I missing something? I could not get the other one through at all, even though I had a copy of her ITIN document and spelled her name exactly as on that document.

I'm to the point that I need to send this new one through, but if I'm missing something I would like to correct it before I do.

Any thoughts anyone!

Thanks in advance, (p.s. I'm sooooooo glad that we still have a wonderful board as I really felt lost when ATX dropped us)

I guess maybe I missed something about due diligence... Please correct me if I am off base here...

If I prepare a return KNOWING that the SS# on the return does not belong to the filer, have I not just been an accessory to fraud?? Am I not required to be certain of the identity of all the taxpayers I prepare returns for?

I would not, will not do as you have described.

Call me a "Goodie Two Shoes" if you wish.