Catherine

Yeah... no one has told the cold weather systems that.

One guy has emailed to say he'll drop his documents through my mail slot on his way home from work. day 1: oops, I forgot, sorry - tomorrow! day 2: I didn't know where to put them so I just left. (hel-LO! mail slot is the big brass flap door in the middle of the front door; good thing you're not a mailman) day 3: I tried but there was a towel blocking the mail slot and I didn't know what to do. day 4: tonight. We'll see if he's smart enough to read/understand the email, sent TWICE, saying to ignore the towel as it's only a draft-blocker. (It would no longer be there except it's been so COLD this past week - we went back to winter and have had snow three times this week but not enough to shovel thankfully.)

me, either. piffle.

Nope but I will in May; try then.

me too !

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia." Another exquisite line. And the BEST sword fight ever on camera. They trained six hours a day for weeks with Olympic coaches developing it.

We have a senior credit that folks can only get if they file. Filing starts the SOL. Filing also provides paper trail should it be needed later for nursing home evaluation of income. And these days, it can provide warning of identity theft, too. If I do the work, I charge. Full fee always shown on bill but for those who don't "need" to file the discount is frequently very large.

I tend to file. One of the triggers is "federal or other state change" and they DO share information. Without a CA-6 (and I also DETEST that form) having been filed you are almost certain to get a nastygram from MassDOR. File it, making sure to append the federal changes, put in the explanation that there is NO change to MA tax. Another important bit on the CA-6 is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, to check the box requesting a statutory hearing. That way, if MA pulls some bone-headed stunt, you have an opportunity to protest it. Without checking that box, if some bonehead mis-enters information and sends a demand for $1,000 additional tax, you will have ZERO chance to protest. (They are more likely to pull that kind of stunt with no CA-6, one reason to be sure to file it.) I have rarely had to request a hearing -- but without checking the box you are poop outta luck.

Size DOES matter - and here's the antithesis of @Elrod's tiny beer. Carlton Draught - "Big Ad"

We sent an email last week to ALL clients whose returns are not complete stating they would be put on extension and we would try to get payment coupons out by 4/18 for those who owe. Couple of folks who think they will owe called to say "fine but payment coupon please!" so we'll make sure that happens. The few we had heard nothing from yet got a different email stating they would NOT be put on extension unless we heard that they intended to have us do taxes for 2015 for them. All but two replies have so far been "yes please" and those two were no surprise. I have found that folks who make bone-stupid mistakes (and then desperately look for someone to fix the un-fixable) frequently don't come back - don't know if they're embarrassed or what. The ones we're waiting for 8979's from will get another email the end of this week stating if we don't have those asap then THEY will be put on extension. Our fax number and link to SecureSend will figure prominently in that email.

I process in the order the LAST piece of information is received. For example I have one young couple who came in mid-February "we have all our stuff!" then they get here... "except for her W-2, one of our two mortgages, grad school expenses, bitcoin details...." and I'm still waiting for some of it. Won't even touch them till that last bit arrives.

I *never* get tired of watching that movie. The very first scene where Inigo shows up (at the river side) he is actually a printed cutout! If you look closely, you can see the photographic shine. He wasn't available that day and he's only in the shot for a couple of seconds.

Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride" where Vizzini (the villain) keeps saying, "Inconceivable!" but everything he says is inconceivable is the next thing that happens. That word

Me, too. I undercharge. We probably ALL undercharge.

@Lion EA the one that made me laugh out loud was "High capacity magazine"/"Standard capacity magazine".

Do you say that with an Inigo Montoya accent?

Unless it's egregious enough to make headlines. Then we can break out the popcorn!

April 29th here in MA. The sales tax holiday is what I think others were talking about. That tends to be set for the weekend we are off on vacation in VT, no matter WHAT week we pick.

Rhode Island drivers are FAR worse.

I can get any accent within a day, good enough to fool natives in anything but a protracted conversation. Except Italian. I grew up hearing that ALL the time and it just does not register in my brain. Somehow I grew up speaking English with no accent (Italian or Bostonian) and was made fun of in school for "talking funny" I kid you not. And for @FDNY we could use Massatuckians, or the more-common-around-here "Massholes" although that usually refers to drivers (not me!).

And KC, and my pal Wendy.... those who prove the case by the exceptions!

EXACTLY. Well worth losing half the fee to get rid of the bozo before he tried causing more trouble down the road. Funny, every time I think my opinion of lawyers can't sink any lower, something like this incident proves me wrong.

Ah, the buzz words: "artisanal" "authentic" and "hand-whatevered". I bet your bum would be pretty raw!

This was adorable and surprisingly plausible. Guinea Pig solar farm lawnmowers

But NOT the back yard kind of hug!