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Value Added Chicken... "Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Anderson Consulting: Deregulation of the chicken`s side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken`s people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken`s mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.

You don't actually have to take the quiz. Just read straight through, and you'll get the point... Take this quiz: 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. 3. Name the last three winners of the American Idol 4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. 5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor actress. 6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners. How did you do? The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners. Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one: 1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school. 2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time. 3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile. 4. Think of a few people who have made you feel, appreciated and special. 5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with. 6. Name half a dozen heroes or scholars whose stories have inspired you. Easier? The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care.

New Stock Market Terms... BULL MARKET - A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. BEAR MARKET - A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex. VALUE INVESTING - The art of buying low and selling lower. P/E RATIO - The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing. BROKER - What my broker has made me. STANDARD & POOR - Your life in a nutshell. STOCK ANALYST - Idiot who just downgraded your stock. STOCK SPLIT - When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves. FINANCIAL PLANNER - A guy whose phone has been disconnected. MARKET CORRECTION - The day after you buy stocks. CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet. YAHOO - What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share. WINDOWS - What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share. INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR - Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse. SHARES- Not something selfish individuals buy. INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE- The private sector's answer to public education standards so industrialists won't feel bad too. PROFIT - An archaic word no longer in use.

If all tax advisers were laid end to end, they would not reach an opinion. In tax rules, miscellaneous is always the largest category. Where there's a will there's a tax shelter. A penny saved is bound to be taxed. I don't have a tax solution, but I admire the problem. If the chance of getting a tax audit is 1000 to 1, why is it 50/50 that it will be you? A detailed analysis of tax strategy usually reveals that the best time to take positive tax action is last year. I like being sent tax returns by pessimistic tax auditors--they never expect to get them back A tax auditor is someone who persists in holding his own view even after we've enlightened him with ours. There are two sides to a debate on tax: until you take one. For every tax problem there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated and wrong. Due to taxation, politicians find it increasingly difficult to reconcile their net incomes with their gross habits. Golf is a lot like taxes -- you drive hard to get to the green and then wind up in the hole. Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day, and ends with cries of "May Day!"? Do your tax return before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day. A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait until income tax time. George Washington never told a lie, but then he never had to file a Form 1040.

I don't know for sure, but suspect that the site might be down for maintainance. Try again tomorrow.

Well, how much are you paying for ZillionForms? If it's close to the $299 for Max through TRX, then it seems to me it would make more sense to buy the TRX package. And then you get the increased functionality along with all the forms. And you can try out the program for those returns that need it. I have never used ProSeries, so I don't know what it does and does not have. But I assume from the fact that you are buying ZillionForms that it does not have all the forms that you use. What specifically does your current program lack? My guess is that if you are happy with what you are using, you would be better off to stay with it. BUT, I was happy with TAASC, until Intuit ate them, even tho I was paying over $3600 a year for it. And yet one year of using ATX, which cost half as much, and I was happier with it than I had been with TAASC. And for several years, the cost of ATX actually went down, but the program itself actually improved dramatically. I also know some who buy both ATX and ProSeries, preferring each program for different types of returns. And some who buy both ATX and Drake. And even one who buys both ATX and Lacerte. And with the new deal through TRX that is an even easier choice to make. Perhaps the logical choice would be to do that for a year, and compare both in your actual work flow. Then you can decide which is best for you, because no software is "the best" for every practice.

That's a good point too. In fact, anyone who does not buy ATX, but buys ZillionForms, just for all those forms that no one else provides, would be smart to buy the $299 package instead, because they would get all the forms plus use of the program itself, for what just the forms alone would cost.

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Have you looked at Dokmee Enterprise? Or check out http://www.ademero.com/products/industries/legal/ This one has OCR capability in the workgroup version, at $299 per workstation.

Business Efile and Business States info 04/30/2009 updated 4-30-09 at 5pm--94x efiles are being held here at our EFC. We identified an issue where IRS was rejecting some 94x returns erroneously with rej 501 and 502. We have a trouble-ticket submitted to the IRS now and will resume the efile of 94x returns after that ticket is resolved. updated 4-30-09 at 5pm--NY Partnership acks--NY notified all software companies last week that they've stopped posting Partnership acks for the short term. This includes 1065 extensions. We should know more information this week, which we will post here for our customers. NJ 1065 efile-- We do not yet have acknowledgements from New Jersey for NJ 1065 returns. We are working with the state to get acks for these returns and ensure that all returns transmitted before the filing deadline are counted as timely-filed. If the 1065 return has fewer than 10 partners, you have the option to paper-file the return. Regardless of the number of partners, you can mail an extension request no later than April 15 as a safeguard. Fees and/or taxes must be paid by the original due date of the return. The extension is only for filing. For more information see the instructions for New Jersey Form 1065 and the state division of taxation website: http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/ updated 2-27-09-- 2007 business returns can be efiled now, year-round. We are sending the business returns to IRS, but we are manually processing some acks. 2008 acks are normally posted to you within a few hours, but 2007 acks could take 1-2 business days. updated 1-28-09 2pm--1099 We do not accept efiles for form 1099-OID, based on a request from IRS.

I've used both IE and Firefox for some years, but Chrome does seem faster to me than either of them, and easier to set up.

Yes, it does seem to be faster, especially gmail is much faster. And when using this site, the spell check is automatic, which is even better than iespell which I used to rely on here.

Let me make it clear what the difference is that I am talking about. I can use IE and then control+ to make this site larger, but it makes the whole page larger, so that I then have to scroll left or right to see it all. Using chrome, the page adjusts the size, but stays on the page. A significant difference. Also, Chrome will import all your bookmarks, passwords, and other settings from IE, and from Firefox, with one click. No complicated group of steps to follow. And it's built-in spell check lets you add words, so that you can, for example, add tax jargon to the dictionary.

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Yes, but Chrome allows you to use the control + to enlarge and allows you to post here as well.

I thought that one sounded like it might be just what you wanted.

I just downloaded Chrome, the new browser from Google, and discovered that if you set the viewing size there, this site is much easier to read. Check it out, it has a lot of nice features.

It is exactly the same ATX program, so yes, all the forms will be there. All the first 4, in other words.

Also, you will find it much easier to go paperless if you go to dual monitors, because then you can have the input data on one screen and the return on the other, just like having paper on the desk, but neater. Once you ever use dual monitors, you will never be willing to go back to just one.

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Yep, those are without a doubt the most screwed up of all the tax-planning items I can think of. Heck, half the time they don't even remeber that they need a QI at all, they just come in in Feb or March and say "Hey, I sold that rent house back in Dec, and now I want to do one of those tax free deals and buy a car wash with the money."

OK, I see where you are coming from. Yes, possibly, she could argue that she THOUGHT they had filed jointly, even tho she did not sign any returns. Clearly, where the IRS has for years taken the position that such joint returns are binding, they would have to grant her that, IF in fact, her income was disclosed to her husband, and they had, in the past, a pattern of filing jointly, with him in charge of preparing, or getting prepared, the returns. But she would have to establish that she had, in fact, gave him her income and expenses, and all these cases say the rule must be construed narrowly. So her problem would be proving that in fact she did give him the information, and reasonably believed that joint returns had been filed. I'd hate to have to argue that one, wouldn't you? Hard to do even if you believe her, and somehow I have a bad feeling about her, from what was told to us so far.

The Shea case involved a return where neither taxpayer signed, the preparer signed both names. You might want to check that one out. Shea v. C.I.R., 780 F.2d at 561 Here's a link to it. http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/7...61.85-1087.html

As a defense to what? Forgery? For that, you would have to look not at tax court but the federal Courts. I was talking only about Tax Court rulings, which are pretty clear on it. Look at what was said in Evans v. Commissioner. When a spouse signs the taxpayer's name to a purported joint return, the burden of proof is on the taxpayer to show that this signature was not authorized and that the taxpayer did not intend to file a joint return. When a spouse files a joint return without the taxpayer's objection and no separate return is filed it is presumed that the joint return was filed with the tacit consent of the taxpayer. Kann v. Commissioner, supra; Carroro v. Commissioner, 29 B.T.A. 646, 650 (1933). Or in Walsh v. United States. The rule is applicable in circumstances where the existence of certain factors indicate that the spouse has tacitly provided consent to the filing of a joint return. The spouse's conduct rather than the signature establishes the necessary intent. Relevant factors include a failure to object, a lack of a valid reason to refuse to file jointly, the delivery of tax data to the other spouse, and an apparent advantage in filing a joint return. But the Shea case was one where it did work as a defense, sort of.