Christian

A client who owns a small rental house had difficulty evicting a renter. On taking possession of his property he found a disaster and incurred over $30,000 in repair and remodeling expense. Some of what was done is structural to the house. New siding, bathroom upgrade, floor replacement, while other things done are basically repairs. My assumption is the structural changes must be depreciated over 27.5 years and the repairs charged off last year when incurred. Is this correct ?

I have encountered a new wrinkle with which I am not familiar on a student's Form 1098-T. In box 4 and box 6 identical amounts are entered. A statement indicates this as a payment apparently refunded to the student I suppose for tuition billed in the prior year. Not having encountered this before I am wondering what if any action is required. I read an amended return may be needed for 2023 and since the student got the AOC for that year am a bit unsure how to proceed. Any info is appreciated.

Windows did update earlier this week I believe.

It resolved after an hour or so. It's possible I signed on when their techs were making adjustments or something.

Signed on this morning and having ATX server problem. Anyone else having this and can advise a solution? My pc will not connect to the WK server.

An individual came in not having filed federal or Virginia taxes for 2020-2024. Does Virginia have the same 3 year filing rule as the IRS? She will not be able to receive a refund for 2020 but she will get her refunds for 2021-2024. The 2021 return will need to be filed before April 15 of this year for federal and May 1 for Virginia ?

My client advises that Ebay notified her that they were not going to send her a 1099-K form unless she sold more than $5,000 in goods but then sent her the one she subsequently received.This is evidently to comply with Virginia law which has the lower $600 threshold. I've been at this for forty two years and have never before seen the State of Virginia require such a form but I suppose they see an opportunity to guig the taxpayers a new way sooooooooooooooo.

I did one of these last year in which the client had sold over $11,000 in personal items. My Kiplinger Tax Letter had advised that for 2024 the service had set $5000 as the amount necessary for a 1099-K to be issued. This client simply sold personal items on Ebay some 24 or so. I was surprised that Ebay even issued the form as $1,300 is a far cry from $5,000. The client advises she took a small loss on the sale of the items sold and I am going to report them as I did last year. I am always peeved when the IRS issues clear guidance on an issue and an outfit does not seemingly comply. On the other hand it is very much par for the course.

A couple with a daughter in college has come in with the 1098-T form from her college. The daughter works and made about $10,000 last year and of course lives at home and is their dependent. She wanted to take some additional courses not offered by her college and paid the tuition for the courses herself and received a 1098-T from that college. My question is do her parents take an education credit for both institutions. In looking at Form 8863 I would assume they can but this being the first time I have had this situation to arise I thought it prudent to get more info.

I think Bulldog's approach will work. It occurs to me I used a similar procedure last year. I simply do not understand if amounts below $5000 are not even supposed to be reported then $1300 should by their own rules not be reported. I will simply show her cost basis slightly over her sales receipts.

A client has come in with a 1099-K for $1300 from Ebay. I thought the new rules stated that $5000+ was the amount needed to require the filing of this form. Soooooooooo what do we do just ignore it or what ?

I sent in my first efile of the season today which was accepted at Andover. Normally the response is accepted but this one came came Accept with messages. I did my best but was unable to bring up any message. Clearly I have missed something in the annual ATX review. The efile has gone through leaving me wondering about the messages. Any info is appreciated.

An individual has come in and has used Form 8829 for a number of years to deduct business use of her home. After review I find the newer simple method will produce the greater tax benefit. Can I use the simple system for her for 2024?

A client has come in with three years of unfiled returns. These are for 2019, 2020, and 2021. it's quite clear she will owe tax for each and every year plus heaven knows whatever penalties and interest the Service will compute. I have no experience with filing unfiled prior year returns and have been trying to find some provision in law that can abate or lessen what I suspect is coming. Can any of you suggest anything I perhaps can do to help this person ?

Thanks. I backup each client file when completed to to a thumb drive which is attached by a usb connection on the front of my pc so no problem there.

I am going to delete ATX 2018 files from my computer which is running Windows 11. The last time I deleted an ATX file a problem arose as the removal tool did not remove client files. Trying to avoid this can someone advise how this deletion of the client files is done ? Hopefully this is not a complicated matter.

A client remarried in 2022. He and his new spouse filed mfs in 2023 as she wanted to file her own return for 2022. He called a day or two ago and will be bringing her info for 2019, 2020, and 2021 years for which she did not file a return. Apparently she had no filing requirement in 2018 and apparently thought she did not need to file going forward. My fist thought was "Good grief the penalties she is going to incur" so I have been reviewing any exception which may help her but don't seem to find one. As few of my clients ever incur a penalty I am submitting this post in an effort to avoid missing a possible exception I might have missed as I am sure she will have a no file penalty along with whatever follows.

This applies to me as well.

I kept on and finally got the PTP and dividends deducted ( the 20%) but was restricted on my tax biz income.

Finished all client returns and now bogged down in my own !!! For reasons I cannot fathom 199A dividends reported in my brokerage account Section 199A PTP income reported by two publicly traded partnerships are not flowing to Form 8995 as one would think they would. Anyone have a clue why this would be. Looks as if I failed to enter one or something.

Thanks very much.

My bad. He has filed an extension due October 15th. apparently for MFJ but they now want to file MFS before the deadline. Having filed the extension for MFJ are they now prohibited from using the MFS filing status even though neither has yet filed their returns ?

A client couple who live together want to change their filing status as indicated. I keep getting a rejection on efiling her return and on checking her info can find no entry errors. However, I did not check the Name change box. Could this be the problem?. Her name has not changed but of course she now appears in line 1 of the return with her husband in line 2 indicated of course as MFS status. Any info is appreciated.

I see what you mean. Thumb drive sets to my immediate left but you are correct a fire and it's kaput. In 41 years I have had two audits which amounted to a $54 dollar refund and an additional tax for a golf cart donated to his club which I told him would not fly. I swear try as I might clients SIMPLY will not act on good advise.

All my client info is on my computer and if I quit I am sure it will remain. I back each individual's account on to a small thumb drive and do not quite understand what this lady is saying.