Gail in Virginia

I would probably depreciate the flooring as A) Agriculture, 9) Single purpose structure which gives him a 10 year life. The farm machinery I would depreciate as A) Agriculture and 8 for a seven year life. Just my opinion.

Maybe I am just lucky, but until all the discussion this year, I did not know this could be an issue. Our server is a dedicated server that no one works on except the programmer occasionally, or me when it is time to install a new software package. So I have been in the habit of doing everything from the workstation on my desk, including updates. E-files are usually done from my assistant's workstation but sometimes from mine. So far, knock wood, I have not had a problem with this.

I usually just order the pub from the IRS each year, and order enough copies to put one at each desk. That way it is handy no matter where I answer the phone, and whether or not the computer I am standing beside is up and running at the time. After all, the IRS will send me as many as I want for free! ;)

Thanks for the smile! :D

My family won't touch store-bought pickles, and I won't eat store bought jam or jelly. I still can tomatoes and green beans, too, when I have enough. Good thing this stuff doesn't get ripe and ready to can in January, February, March or April!

I prefer to sign even when I am not paid simply because I don't want to miss one that I should have signed, nor do I want to have any question ever raised about why I wouldn't sign a return. As long as I do everything on the up and up, I can't see what harm can be done by me signing a return I didn't get paid for, but I know the penalties for failing to sign when I should.

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Just curious - do you have pink eyes?

Not every young person is totally ignorant of the Constitution. When my son's third grade teachers told me that hand-writing was not important because kids now would all use computers when they grew up, I used the following summer to work on his handwriting by having him copy the Constitution out in cursive. I am not saying that he remembers it all, but he has at least been exposed to it. (But he was not very happy with me that summer.)

With our business and farm clients, we don't have a lot of choice about giving them the depreciation detail here in Franklin County VA because the local commissioner of the revenue requires that the depreciation schedule and Sch C. F. or page 1 and 2 of 1120 or 1065 be attached to the personal property tax forms before they are filed. Therefore, if we forget to give them out we know they will be calling and asking for them. Easier to give them a copy on the first pass.

Congratulations! I am beginning to be very envious, and will have to step up my postings!

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Rocky Mount, VA 1. County seat of Franklin County, Moonshine Capital of the World 2. Home of Jubal Anderson Early, confederate General and Savior of Lynchburg 3. One end of the Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail Not bad for such a small town!

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I think a lot of us would like to see an alternative software that is more along the lines of what ATX used to be, but I hope that we are not putting too much pressure on Mel to have the perfect software that makes everybody happy all the time - I don't think that can be done, no matter how good he is!

The ad that I hear on the radio around here has them checking the return prepared by a CPA and finding numerous errors - in fact 4 out of 5 returns they check have errors! I am not a CPA, and they can make errors just like anyone else, but to imply that people hired to generate RALS for the BLock empire (and the ads to hire them even say "no experience necessary") are doing a better job than people who train for years, and work at this year round, makes me furious! Now that I have vented, back to work.

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But some of the questions I had actually answered in other places and the form was merely picking up those answers. I did not have a problem with it answering that the taxpayer and spouse had social security numbers, when I had entered social security numbers for them. I feel that my due diligence applies to the whole return, not just EIC.

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This rule also applies to Fishermen. And for the rule to apply, 2/3 of gross income has to be from farming or fishing.

Thank you, OldJack, those are great!

Julie, you make some good points. I have no problem with EIC, and even those who play the system by working only enough to qualify for the maximum are going to play the system some way. If it wasn't EIC, it would be welfare or food stamps themselves. I have heard from car dealers about people buying cars with their refund checks, so I am sure that is how some EIC money is spent. And it is very hard for me to save money sometimes, so I can imagine if I were just barely scraping by how difficult it would be. Our tax system has always been designed to take more money from the wealthy (at least in theory) so that it can be given to the poor (although not always as directly as with EIC). But this certainly seems to be a hot button with some preparers - both for and against. I wish I knew all the answers. :dunno:

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See the suggestion I made under the thread e-file rejection for syncing the files with the EFC.