Jack from Ohio

I carry a cordless mouse with me to use on laptops. I DESPISE touchpads!! I can use them, but they are so restrictive!

​I have been hearing this since 1995. 20 years later and....

​Somehow, I don't remember XP having tiles all over the homepage??

I will not be purchasing any computers with WIN 8, 8.1 or 10 for the foreseeable future. My supplier custom builds my machines and has promised that WIN7 PRO will be available for many years. Microsoft is notorious for releasing too much, too soon and too fast. WIN7 is stable. ATX always embellishes the system requirements. I take them with only slight attention. If they devoted as much attention to correcting the programing of ATX as they do telling everyone they need the newest, fastest systems with the latest OS (male bovine scat, in my observed and experienced opinion), there would be far less push back about their pricing and tech support. Rant Over.

​Let us know how that works out... NOTHING gets expedited by the IRS in the last 18 months. Criminal Lois Lerner has screwed all of us.

If the copies are redacted, what benefit will they be to the victim? Another method of the IRS ACTING like they are doing something useful.

​This is solid advice. Do NOT call the IRS about this situation. In fact, even 4 weeks apart would be better. Under NO circumstances send more than one year in an envelope. Keep it simple for the IRS. If she is contacted about the amount she still owes, she can tell them that amended returns are being filed, ask for time to allow all the amended returns to process, then contact them about payment on the total amount due. Keep it simple for the IRS.

Is the user interface for 10 going to look and act like the user interface for 8.0?

​The real question is: Did you get any useful information from them that could speed up their processes?

That was doggone funny!!

​Does the client acknowledge this?

Client's Mom passed in Feb. 2013. The funds are still in a bank account in the estate's name. He is trying to clean up the mess the other person has allowed to happen. We prepared 2010 - 2013 personal returns for her in the last 2 months.

​No. Bank information is not in the transcript.

Client's Mom passed in late 2013. Estate was established. Mom was in total nursing home care due to Alzheimer's and dementia. The person who was handling her affairs until about 3 months ago simply did not. 4 years personal returns not filed, etc. Now preparing the 1041. Here are the facts. The only income to the estate is $65K U.S. Savings Bond interest. 1099-INT was issued in the name of the estate. After obligations and attorney's fees, approx. $60K remaining. There is only one beneficiary, the son, who is our client. Now to my question: Is the estate required to pay the tax on the interest? Can the estate distribute the remainder to the beneficiary and he claim the income on his return? There is a big difference in tax rate. If the estate pays, the rate is 40%. On our client's return, the rate would be 25-28%. The information I am finding on the IRS site is ambiguous at best on this question. Any help from those of you with more estate return experience would be appreciated.

Do your research to see how much "overhead" those professional fundraising sites charge. Nothing is stopping you from posting all over social media to ask for donations as long as you don't present yourself as a charitable group and people understand there will be no tax deductibility for gifts given. Establish a bank account and maybe a PayPal account and have people make donations that way.

I do not understand how they got around the "identity questions" you must navigate to get access?? If you think it is easy, go to the site (when it is put back online) and try to get your own transcripts.

​ATX does not e-file W-3 forms. Those are uploaded directly to Social Security. Does this mean that the charge will be implemented when the W-2/W/3 is created? I don't know how this could be tracked? Not certain.

That would mean that people would have to come into the 21st century. Most tax preparers are nowhere near grasping the reality of how the future is going to be.

Notice the hack attacks are for organizations with tens or hundreds of thousands of people's information. It is time consuming and difficult to hack these systems. They are not going to attack my business with 250 clients, or even the firm where I work with 3,000 clients. Too much work with small rewards for the hackers. Hackers pick low hanging fruit.

The sorting center in Dayton is being closed. Sorting will all go 90 mile east to Columbus. Streamlining at its finest. I have heard from people inside the local post office that slow downs, not processing bags of mail and other things are being committed as the workers protest the closing. I have this on first person information. It is frustrating because our clients want to blame us for things not being delivered timely or at all.

​Did the client give you the wrong account number?

To qualify for the insolvency exemption. the person must have been insolvent on the DAY BEFORE the debt was cancelled. This is a very key matter. The date of the debt cancellation will be on the 1099-C. Nothing that happens before or after that date has any effect. Be careful not to get drawn into an attempt to avoid paying tax that is owed.

​Change the 10 to a 6 and I will agree with you.

​You obviously work with wage-hour auditors with a totally different outlook on their job. There is no way such a request would fly with the wage-hour people here.

​I agree. I use it extensively. Why the deception about "shipping", "handling" or whatever they call it. Political practices plain and simple. CCH thinks we are "low information" enough to believe the male bovine crap they keep spreading. Unfortunately, enough ATX purchasers must be....