Gail in Virginia

Not to mention that using IE that old is a tremendous security risk, I would think. You might be doing them a favor by forcing them to update.

Might be a long shot, but I am wondering if anyone on this forum has personal experience with any church management software? Our church has been using MemberPlus for the membership/donation records and QuickBooks for the accounting. The church has more or less out-grown MemberPlus, and we are looking for a software that can be accessed from anywhere with online access via a tablet, phone or computer so the staff has constant access to members' addresses, phone numbers and personal information. We are looking at ACS, which has an integrated accounting module. What I have seen on-line from users is kind of a mixed bag; some love it and some hate it. I was hoping that some of you on this forum might have used it, or seen reports from it, and have some idea of how difficult it is to learn and whether to not it does a good job. TIA.

That's why I don't tell them not to use Miscellaneous - I just ask for a transaction report for that account and then pop things into the correct account with a journal entry. Some clients use Ask Accountant the same way, but most of them like miscellaneous better because they think they already know where it goes.

Do you need to fill in form 6765 to get this to flow properly? When I look at the drop down list from 2012 ATX is shows form 6765 beside the Increasing Research Credit. Form 3800 is usually a summary form to bring together credits from other forms and credits carried from other years. Hope this helps.

Eric, that was absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

And I just sent an invite. Not that I am active on that group, but if you just need numbers in your contact list I am there for you!

I too am sorry for your loss. It is amazing what a bond develops between us and our pets. But I am glad three little kittens got a good home!

Tom, I would gladly add you but Bulldog Tom in Hollister CA doesn't bring you up. But if you message me your name, I will add you to my contacts.

Reminds me of the time a tobacco farmer here went to the bank to cash his tobacco allotment check. The bank told him that they did not cash those type checks, but they would deposit it to his account for him. He very politely told them he would just cash it himself, to give him all of the money he had in his account. This was probably somewhere between 10 and 100 times what the check was for (depending on how his cash flow was running at the time.) Of course, they wanted to back up and do something different at that point, but he insisted on getting his cash out right away, and then went and opened an account at another bank. Might be just a coincidence, but that particular bank is out of business and has been for sometime.

According to the instructions for form 8879: • Do not send Form 8879 to the IRS unless requested to do so. Retain the completed Form 8879 for 3 years from the return due date or the date the IRS received the return, whichever is later. Form 8879 may be retained electronically in accordance with the recordkeeping guidelines in Rev. Proc. 97-22, which is on page 9 of Internal Revenue Bulletin 1997-13 at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb97-13.pdf.

Three years from now.

You could make an election on the SE to report $1600 of self employment income even though they had a loss of $75 on the schedule C, subject to certain conditions, and that would have given them "earned" income for purposes of EIC. However, I don't believe that you can use gross income from a schedule C and ignore expenses to get an earned income figure for EIC purposes. That is one reason that due diligence includes checking for expenses on self-employment.

I think that you are on the right track, Michael. 1040NR is for non-resident aliens, and while he was not here legally he was resident. I think that they could file MFJ for 2014, but if it doesn't make very much difference I would probably protect her by doing MFS.

I have never had a conversion program that converted EVERYTHING. Usually it does a great job on taxpayer information, which is helpful, but so far I have not had a program that actually carried forward installment sales, capital loss carryovers and NOLs in a manner that doesn't require a good bit of manual entry. Estimated payments and balances due/refunds from state returns are also problematic. Having the new to ATX person input everything on last year's return does three things: trains the person on ATX, eliminates any problems with conversion, and double checks that those returns were done correctly on UT, and would have been handled correctly on ATX. Of course, if three were more clients or more complicated returns, it might not be worth the time involved.

They did a story on this on the CBS Sunday morning news show. I loved it, and would love to go see the contest someday.

And that reminds me - I know that a few places we went to when I went with the middle school field trip, the boys wearing boots had to remove their footwear to make it through the metal detector. Rich's point about the bags is a good one, and I would avoid large metal objects on your clothes (belt buckles, shoes with a metal shank) because of the metal detectors at a lot of tourist sites. I am assuming they are still in use; I don't get to DC as often as I would enjoy.

It has probably been 30 years since I was there, but I remember the National Zoo as being one of my favorite places to visit in DC. More recently, I went with a school field trip to the museums and national monuments Plenty to do and see, I am sure your family will have a great time and the only problem will be that it will go by so quickly!

Does this result in your basis in the corporation potentially being greater than your basis in the assets placed in the corporation? Or less? Been a long time since I studied this.

I think this is one of those cases where intent actually matters, as Tom pointed out. And being military, there out to be some evidence that they were separated as well as under separate roofs. For example, while his wife was deployed was he the emergency contact for her, and while he was in the hospital was she the emergency contact for him? Did they actually agree to separate in 2010, and the deployment and hospitalization in 2011 were irrelevant to actual living arrangements? Or were they living together until circumstances separated them and they decided that they liked it that way? Facts and circuses matter.

I just returned from Jamaica through the Miami airport. I did not apply for Global Entry, but as far as I could tell all US Citizens were eligible to use the automated kiosks. And I was TSA pre-check on both the outgoing and incoming flights just through the luck of the draw since they randomly select people for that . At least, as far as I know it was a random selection. As always, your mileage may vary.

The ones I hate mix number 2 with number 3 - they don't call, they don't bring in their stuff when they say they will. Finally, two weeks before the deadline they show up with a mess, dump it on my receptionist and then call back every day to see if we "need anything else." Code for 'Where is my return?' And they never understand why they have to go on extension.....

According to Publication 3112, you must submit a new application if the "structure of the business has changed, requiring use of a new or different Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN),"

When we changed from sole-prop to S Corp, we had to get a new EFIN. We actually talked with someone at one of the IRS forums that summer, and they got us all squared away while we were there.

I don't know if they will get a separate form, but I understood that employers had to begin showing on the W2 the cost of health insurance provided. I thought perhaps that would be sufficient information for the ACA coverage requirement.

I think some people will milk it for all it is worth.