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I tell the clients they are going on extension so I will have more time to work on their return and be able to DOUBLE check it. No one complains.

I also send the engagement letter (2) 1 for them and 1 for me, with the organizer if they need one and "Hi happy tax season letter" with updates or special interest items. Some times they send them back sometime they don't but they do sign them when they come for pickup.

My prayers are for both of you and your family.God Bless.

Thanks for straightening that out for me.

Just out to lunch and I think that's where my brain was before. It is a NJ partnership not a CT partnership. Senior moment or brain freeze? Are we getting near April 15th?

Have a client who moved to CT from NJ. In NJ the partnership rolls over to K1 and to their individual return. In CT it seems like they pay a tax on the partnership and not K1 to their individual return. The partnership is in NJ but the main partner is in CT. Any help who be appreciated. Thanks

Gee I wish I had that kind of money in my 401. What is he doing with 640,000?

I an idiot too but I sure enjoy the great company of all of you. Thanks for the laugh.

Thanks KC for the laugh, it eases the pain. I pray for you and your family daily.

I will continue to pray for all the members of this community and their families. You are great water cooler friends. Sometimes, like today I will the season was a little longer just to try and catch up on the paper work. Oh well extensions here they come.

Thanks for the help. I did enjoy sending them to H&R block, Gene, although that would probably be mean and cruel. That would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when they walked in.

I feel like a therapist. He is away from her and living in his car or at his girlfriend's house. He works, she did not (maybe $400.00) 3 children. This year they owe money using mfj and BIG bucks if mfs. Each one calls me individually. I am his preparer, I don't know where she goes or even if she files. I am thinking they should send me something in writing or e-mail as to their filing status. I am really feeling concerned about this return. I don't IRS knocking on my door. She won't sign papers for the children for him to claim, they live with her. She says she is claiming the children. I feel like I stepped into a bees nest. Any suggestions.

Marilyn did the same thing with the roof. Hopefully no one is standing under it. Today they are predicting 60. It looks like rain. Could use some snow for the farmers to help the ground along. Tomorrow is Ground Hog day lets see what happens.

My prayers are with you and your husband. I will also keep your family in my prayers. Thanks for your help over the past couple of years.

If I gave all that to my clients, I would be overwelmed with phone calls. I only have one of form ####, do I send it to the IRS? Most of my clients are not e-filers, I been trying to get them to e-file but they don't trust the internet. I get the calls if they go through the package and mess it all up. Thank God ATX lets me print client copy on their return. So the least I give them the better off they are and I am. If they need something I gladly send it to them.

I have had radition for a tumor behind the right eye and have double vision. I was quite the pirate for halloween with a patch over my eye. It takes some getting used to. Hopefully it the eye will go back to normal for tax season. I have been lurking and reading just a few posts until the eyes start to water. Oh well, this is life. It's tough but as I say I could be looking ta the roots to the grass above me. Thank God that is not the case. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Got mine on 11/03.

I work from home also. My office is a room off the kitchen. This room has book shelves with cookbooks, tax book, children's games, Easter egg baskets, and plain junk. The piles on the floor could be anything from grandkid's art work, games, tablecloths, personel files, and junk. I seem to have a lot of junk. My clients don't mind as long as I get the returns done and they are correct. Most cleints are drop off a few want to stay with their stuff. If more than I comes in (I work by appointments only) Then they sit in the family room and watch tv, that room looks like a tornado went through. Oh well, I am not in the interior decorating business. I have been thinking of a drop box for outside the back door. If I am not home they just throw their stuff in the back door. Never had a problem.

This is funny. It could almost be true.

Boy this pi$$ed me off. Fingerprints, I was fingerprinted for teaching each time I changed districts, I was fingerprinted for ERO. I am still waiting for the results of my fingerprints to teach from 6 years ago from one of the digital concerns, the state police did a better job. Now more money for fingerprinting. "The UPS Store" is not located near me at all. Another expense to get to it. I am beginning to think is it worth being a tax preparer??? The clients can be funny, but the IRS is hestical. Thanks for letting me vent.

Thank you for explaining the 'P'. It is all very clear now. The government dust is floating away.

Thanks. Off to read more. The mind gets fuzzy as it gets older.

Client is selling home on a short sale. They can't afford to keep paying on the mortgage husband lost job 1 year ago. He has found a new job but they are still struggling. Their attorney says they will get 1099 c. Now I had been reading everything I can find and I am still total confused. If the 1099 c has a number in box 2 (amount of debt canceled) that amount must go on the 1040 as income? Don't know figures but guess at them loan amount 300,000, short sale 190,000. Then there is 110,000 needed to be shown on 1040. Can a 982 help because it is resident's home? Some direction would be nice but the government doesn't have it. Help.

I called today got the rep and was asked to hold after waiting 15 minutes I hung up. Called back and got voice mail. Left message about renewal. Called back prior to 5 pm and got mail box is full and sent to another mail box could not leave message there either. I just finished e-mailing to their sales dept what happen. Is this a sign of the way tax season will go??? I am not a happy camper with their service.

That is one less thing I have to wonder about. Thanks KC