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Pic of ivy after I 're-tangled' it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/9I7Mlr1dXgSVfeCE3

Home office expense form, Expense input tab lines 30a & 30b.

Mine's not tax related. When I work, I have my back to the client. My computer table is behind my desk. I have a beautiful ivy plant on the corner of my desk and when it got too long, I just took the end and looped it back up to make it look fuller. When I was finished her return, I turned around and she tells me she's 'untangled' my ivy plant, removed the dead leaves and now it's draped down onto the floor. (Oh. Gee. Thanks?) The icing on the cake was she wore one of those sickeningly sweet perfumes that older ladies like, and it irritated my throat and made me cough. I asked to please not wear perfume in my office because I have asthma. She sniffed herself and said she only put on a few drops. I think they become immune to the smell and just put more and more on every time. She perfumed our restroom so much that it still smelled several hours later. But I really wanted to tell her to LEAVE MY FRICKIN' PLANT ALONE!

Agreed. Been a big fan of Foxit for years. I bought their old PDF editor but went with Nuance when I wanted more features.

Almost any explanation will suffice. The IRS doesn't fight S elections.

The amount of income in a distribution is calculated at the trust level. Impossible to say if the trust return was done right or not, but if it was right, expenses exceeded income in the trust and only principal was distributed.

Except when the trust pays something for the beneficiary, it's a deemed distribution.

Had the IRS mail me back a 2848 I had faxed them because they determined that the signature had been done electronically... which it had. I just need to make it look a bit better. Before I got the letter from IRS, I had faxed it several more times, and one of those times, someone processed it.

Whoa, I forgot about the health care program. Thank you soooo very much! I have his last year return to use as a guide. No rent paid, owned two houses, sold one. Wife has retirement income, which he told me is not taxable in MA. How do you determine if a bank has a MA charter?

It's not an allowable trust deduction, so it becomes a distribution to the beneficiary. I'm leaning towards allowing the credit, because I've had divorced couples where the parent who paid the expenses did not claim the exemption that year, so the other parent got the credit.

You can do both electronically.

I would add back depreciation before making that calculation. Positive cash flow would cut it. Also, knowing the property would increase in value, supports an ultimate profit motive.

From my router log: [DoS Attack: SYN/ACK Scan] from source: 151.80.230.107, port 22, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 11:53:24 [DoS Attack: RST Scan] from source: 209.98.153.105, port 443, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:47:10 Both were today. https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/151.80.230.107 https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/209.98.153.105

Why not just print it PDF to save a step. Then print to paper from the PDF. That's our procedure.

https://community.atxinc.com/forums/thread/259232.aspx

Seems longer.

I kind of suspected from the beginning that you had unchecked the wrong box.

All of our computers are connected to the internet by necessity. Sites that are hacked are websites that store data for access. Our computers are not websites. If you look at your router logs you will find programs have been probing your ports trying to connect, but failing. Most times it's from a college IP address and it may just be harmless probing. Such is the world we live in, but I'm not going to use an outdated, inefficient paper process in my office.

Most of the time the client drops and runs and we scan later. But we only work from scans and just keep the records secure until client picks up returns. Some clients who are far away just email us everything so we don't even have to scan. We code them in ATX with an 'N' so we no there's no physical file to deal with.

No cherry! Oh, man. That's my favorite part!

Oh man. Just got a part-year MA return who moved to MD. Any sage advice before I dive in? At least I get to use Sch R(?) this time so it might make more sense.

You can just override tax prep fee. You'll need support if your preference for 'display tax research tool tips' is grayed out, because I've not seen or heard of that.

Digitally. We don't want to spend time pulling/filing files or looking for misplace documents.

We have a locked, deadbolted, windowless storage room, but it's mostly to keep current year records secure. We have carts that we roll away every night so everything is as secure as can be. We're in the process of shredding all historical paper records.

Well, at least it's working now. I tested it by posting the lyrics to Thick as a Brick and it didn't crash.