Lloyd Hudson

I had a couple of inquiries pertaining to the BOI, but had NO bearing on tax prep. I refer them to ficen.gov. Only answer I have. I gave up babysitting adults when I passed  80. I was talking to my brother about this sort of thing , he just commented that most of our clients and/or friends have less than half of OUR COMBINED experience. 160 years

He maintains that I should not expect them to have what I would consider common sense. 

Crabby old man 

My Fax..We have used  them for at least 10 years. Use it online or via Email

During Covid isolation,we set my brother up with a laptop, two 27" monitors, wireiess keyboard, remoting into his desktop in office. Occasionly, had to call me to reboot his desktop. Probably 250 returns prepared remotely.

fixed assets open with either the 4562 or the 8582. I had that issue earlier and had to wait for the form release.

I have become a big fan of direct pay, after several cases of "missed " postings or "un-identified " deposits. I am not a fan procrastinting payment. And, I also agree with postponing filing awaiting e-file. E-file more positive than "human" . YMM

I try to use priority mail to the street address of the campus. Not the lock box. Delivered to l8ve person with a signature. No guarntees that it will be processed, but is actually in the IRS compound. Direct debit YES

I am not going to search for it, but I remembered from some years ago that the IRS said "tax home was where you earned the majority of your income. "

We have attempted to do away with paper. Moderately succesful. 2007 21 cases of paper, 2022 2-1/2. Purchased from Quill with monthly promo. I think $28.00 delivered.

Try to NOT encourage paper returns. "Would you like cream" type language. AND moved office 40 miles OUT OF CITY. Increase in postage.

What is Social Media? What is Chat ia.? I have studioslt avoided be ause I do not care wbat you eating and I do not share well. I see all these big names gettinto trouble over inane comments on Twitter and or facebook. This the only place that i post anything. Or sign i to.

35 minutes ago, cbslee said:

I have never had a monitor die. My current monitor on my Win 10 system is about 9 years old and still works fine.I used it on my previous Windows system.

I am semi retired and don't work full time any more so my monitor probably has the equivalent of 4 full time years of use.

I agree, monitors last. But the day you instal  newer one the dirrence in 10 years is amazing. I just kept gettingv newer glasses. I have a HP 24" from about 2004 or so. ( hand me down) excellent Screen. Also main monitor is 24" Dell. So so screen. Friend was "camping" in his trailer and plugged his 27"HP into my system.

Both my monitors appeared to fade away. Before October there will be 2 new monitors on my desk.  Kept hoping someone would take pity on "Old Man" and gift them to me. But, birthday came and gone, no monitors

I am attempting to switch to Drake, currently. However, with the Demo version I am struggling with worksheets  not exiling or flowing to where I think they should go. Goes back to what I have said for the last 20+ years. I know how to fill out the forms. I am having a problem with "worksheets". Do not know if I am going to be able to do this. Just turned 80 and pretty set in my ways

preferences as opposed to reference

Change the font in references

I did this yesterday and it would not install. Spent 40 minutes or so with tech support. He attempted to do it for me and asked some of his peers. "It is on a domain and we do not support domains". We have been on a ever since we first got a website. I think 2002 or 2003. I  am not enthused. 

I have two of those clients who, for whatever reason, listen to us and save 30 cents on every dollar of self employment income. $25,000 tax bill, "Okay can we make bigger estimates this year " few and far between but there are a few. Woman in tears the other day. HER income W-2..$4.1 million need $166,000 over withholding, "Can I make payments". Bite my tongue. 

RE: the letters regarding EIP and Child tax credit. The IRS did send them to both parties. I have them in hand from one of my clients now. They have 10 children so you can figure they say on top of this stuff. 

dsl reports. more than 30 years of reports from users

Original post says that client is active duty GUARD. Probably paid by the state as Guard. Unless, forwarded to federal activation. Then the w-2 would be from DFAS and taxed in state of residence, At least that is the experience  in Arizona. Of course, in Arizona active duty would not be subject to state tax at all.

I do not know how they did it but, When we first started  e-file we used a 3rd party transmitter. $10. ATX did not do it for us. We sent it to 3rd party. I do not know what they did but it worked, just took a while. We did not sign as ERO.

ATX never provides the 1040-ES until late march or so. As  to my recollection. But then again my memory is like memorex. OLD. 

That is what I thought i was saying, the operator (contractor) determines his/her hours. Not the corp. structure. 

I realize that this is the State of the  Big NO. But, under current definitions the Uber/Lyft ride share folks could not be employees. 

They determine their hours, they provide their tools (cell phone and car) , and most of them have other jobs or businesses that are different from the part-time ride share business. 

On 7/15/2020 at 9:22 AM, Abby Normal said:

I've never said, "If you have to ask, you can't afford me." but I'd like to do that once before I fully retire.

I Will definitely use that on next "shopper". I really do not want anymore clients. 

As another Looong Time AAA member, I have used the tow service as well as lockout, flat tire, dead battery  etc.. The no rider policy must be something with "social distancing" or something. I have never had an issue with riding with vehicle, Had one occasion where the operator asked me to leave my dog in the towed vehicle as he was terrified of dogs. I would definitely inquire at AAA corporate. I have noticed a few changes in the last couple of years since they moved call center to Northern California. Limit to 4 service calls a year was first. The call operator wanted a credit card to provide service. when I got a little agitated she gave me to supervisor and dispatched tow truck without a charge. 

I do have several "classic vehicles" that are subject to needing help home.

Thank You, I knew it would be relative simple. Just flailing.  They did send him each years balances and I computed from that.  Thank you again.