Catherine

I use an ancient version of 1Passwrod that is still 100% local (on my machine). I know others who use the cloud-based version and like it. It's very easy to use, but I wish they still offered a local-only version.

I had to have "the talk" with two elderly couples this year. (Well, one couple and the adult son POA for the other couple.) Huge capital losses in "investments" that are utterly inappropriate for people in their late 80s and early 90s - and no, they did not have those investments the prior year. General warning to ask LOTS of questions before buying anything, and not to accept gobbledygook as answers.

Rita is one of the best. Hope she comes back to post more often. That summer get-together is one of my very fond memories.

In case anyone was wondering about the outcome of this. I dredged up old documents (that had not yet been shredded somehow) and discovered they got the one that did not need repayment. Plus after some more research in other old files, I recalled the IRS was rejecting e-files for anyone who did not include the annual $500 repayment amount on their 1040. Since that did not affect these folks, that is confirmation of the non-repayable version of the credit.

That makes a twisted kind of sense, @Gail in Virginia. Got another one a little while ago, about documents for tax consulting (yeah, right) and when I hovered my mouse over the sender name the originating email was from -- just guess now -- an onlyfans account!

Got this "request for help" this morning. It's not even good enough to be AI-generated.

It's the computers sending all the letters. No people involved - especially with the more stupid letters.

I'm not going to it, but it's only about 4 hours west of me. It's not impossible to have an early snowstorm in late October, but not likely. It will be chilly, though.

Just write them backwards; then they'll be completely safe!

We have a friend who had a matrix for passwords, that depended on the company name and a couple of other items. Once you knew the algorithm, new passwords were super easy to generate and recall - and even if you got his cheatsheet, it was utterly meaningless without knowing the algorithm. Multiple pieces had to be put together, in the right order, which varied. I wish I remembered better how it worked. Simple, elegant, inscrutable.

Just about the only reason I bother to go in is that when my mother in law got sick (in her 90s), she had been so healthy for so long and skipping any annual exams (too busy!), they no longer had any record of her. She might as well have been a Martian who showed up, sick as a dog, to be treated.

Never even heard of it, but I'd be interested in hearing other's opinions too. Information is always helpful. Is it supposed to be similar to Ignition, or Liscio?

Like Margaret, it's just me here. Anyone trying to access my stuff would need to get into my house - past locks and alarms - then into my computer (password protected) then into my secure drive (a different password) or my online portal (yet another password). WiFi is totally locked down, hidden, inaccessible. How is adding more "authentication" crap going to help keep anyone's stuff more secure? Answer: it won't. What makes good sense in a multi-person office, or large corporation, is simply stupid in a one-person operation and leads to the idiocy of passwords on post-it notes stuck to the side of the monitor.

I got a phone message left just today, reminding me of an appointment for something or other. Let's just ignore that I already got, and responded to, the email notice. And went online and filled in all the #$%^&^%$#$%^ forms they now require (where you have to click all the &*@#$%& checkboxes; it was ridiculous). My guess is the text message comes next. Message was annoying but at least funny. Recorded, not even a real person, and it sounded like the "play" speed had been mis-set to make the recording sound like the "person" was either drunk or tranquilized.

It becomes more and more important to plant a medicinal herb garden...

I was wondering. Thanks.

While I use Drake (and have a WISP), I don't have anything set up that requires a QR code. I don't even recall seeing or hearing anything about such a thing on Drake. Maybe I've just had my head in the sand...

You'll get a response stating they need more time to respond.

At least screenshot the tracking showing the first mailing was delivered to the Post Office before the 4/15 date. Once it leaves the taxpayer's hands and is in the custody of the USPS, I think they would have to allow a duplicate submission. You might need to go to a supervisor for that, and you also might need to use the words "Tax Court" to that supervisor. Tax Court would probably find for the t/p and they would also ream out the agent & supervisor who disallowed the re-file due to USPS failure after they have Certified Mail in their custody.

We had that selfsame vehicle as a loaner summer before last when we had car trouble on vacation! Smelled like the chickens it had been recently used to transport, and we called it the Chicken Mobile. Every time you turned it on, a different set of warnings would come up.

CA can take a while. NYS can take a week - and then the acceptance comes back dated the day of submission. Call Drake e-file support if you want them to poke at it. They may have an acceptance that did not get back to you, somehow, or their systems may still show Pending. Can't hurt to ask.

Direct Pay is pretty easy.

And by training, I am an engineer. I know the breed very well indeed. There are some who get lost in the weeds and fixate on unimportant details that make no difference whatsoever (worked with some of those as an engineer, too, and they're just as insufferable there). It comes down to having to be right, whether they know what they are talking about or not, and not trusting the expertise of anyone who is not them. I don't want a client who does not respect my expertise, and any engineer, at this point, starts on on probation as 90%+ of all the disrespecting clients over 30 years have been engineers.

Yes, that is my phrase. I'm tickled pink that you recalled!

100% agree! I've heard this termed "the midwit problem" with people who are reasonably smart & competent in their own areas of expertise mistakenly thinking that makes them smart & competent in every area. When they do it with tax returns, we get huge messes to clean up, for clients who will question and nit-pick over every bleeping line on the return. Charge accordingly, with pre-payment required.