Catherine

Not sure about ATX any more, but yes it should go on Sch D so that is what I would do. Your mileage may vary.

My sympathies, Joan! Take it easy with yourself. The motivation will come back when it will and you will do better giving yourself some time to grieve.

pdf995 suite is $9.95 and can be used with one of its add-ons (another $10 or so, one-time cost) to password protect pdf's. If you already have Adobe, ou can use that to do the same. I love my file portal; it comes with my CPA Site Solutions web site. The web site also has a utility that lets clients send me protected files by email without them having to have any software; click the link and off they go.

Hike the bill for those calls and missed appointments. I am getting SO tired and ticked off with those types of shenanigans, and I am hiking bills (easy for me; I lower the discount given!) for things I used to shrug off.

from another forum (I have clicked on the link and it does go to accounting today): The company, enQ Inc., launched its service last Wednesday. “We call the IRS, and sell our place on hold to our customers,” said Andrew Valiente, founder of the Walnut, Calif.-based company. “This means our customers can cut their hold times when calling the IRS from hours to minutes. While there are similar existing services (for example, Lucy Phone and Fast Customer), both of these options rely on a return call from a customer service agent. We put our customers directly in touch with a customer service agent, without waiting for a return phone call.” http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/tax-practice/new-service-aims-to-cut-irs-phone-call-hold-times-77127-1.html?utm_medium=email&ET=webcpa:e6040074:993064a:&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=tax%20practice-feb%204%202016&st=email

Plus my software (Drake) tells me that when the M-1 and M-2 and L are not required, they are NOT transmitted to the IRS even when I force them to print.

I have a 4-in-1 also but a separate line for the fax. It will fax duplex-printed pages too, which I really like. Great for when I need to fax something signed (2848, state equivalent...).

IRS E-Services hardware issue has been resolved. The IRS E-Services system came back online at approximately 1:00pm EST. There may be intermittent issues over the next few days. We have been testing the system and it is currently stable. The IRS reported a major main frame computer outage that also affected E-Filing and many other IRS Electronic Services. As always we will keep you posted.

Even if all you do is read the titles of the pieces they are plenty funny. "Erotica for banned instruments" or "Sonata of two unfriendly groups of instruments" are funny without knowing one thing about classical music.

About ten minutes of laugh-out-loud demented brilliance. Referee, injuries, player substitutions, audience shenanigans, and running commentary from the broadcast announcers... PDQ Bach and Beethoven's Fifth

My two cents... Tell him your long-standing policy. Offer the return of the prep fee (that you say you have no problem with) and the free return next year (IF and only if you would want him back a s a client). Tell him you would have prepared the amended return gratis but since he decided to go elsewhere he took that option out of your hands. If you really want him back and/or you really want to keep the parents as clients, you could offer to pay the amended return up to the amount YOU charge for those returns (when you do them). Or you can simply say you have offered what you believe is fair, and stop talking. Once you make that point (as they say in sales) the next person person to talk, buys.

@mcb39 -- calling my HOME office on a Sunday is, prima facie, grounds for being fired. Multiple times? Grounds for egging his house... or at least thinking about how much fun *that* would be!

Hey; eighty is the new sixty!

I have used several of the methods above. Additionally, I have told people that due to changes in my practice, they should expect to see their fee increase X% to about $Y (big numbers in both of those spots!), or that I will no longer be doing returns of type Z (whatever theirs is), or returns where we (we = me = my tiny company) do not also do the bookkeeping, or any number of other conditions. The key part is to pick a condition that you are absolutely *certain* they will walk away from in a huff. If their bugaboo every year is price, quintuple it! But usually some version of "I don't do this type of return any more" will do it. There is no wiggle room there. Also depends on how certain you are about ditching the bum (um, problem client). You can't trust their figures - ditch 'em fast! If it's just money - well, someone on another forum had a tale a few years back. Client drove him nuts; called constantly. Took the advice of "double his fee" and the first year still drove him nuts. Doubled again - not quite as nuts but not worth it. Doubled again (!) and became the guy's favorite client. The calls that were a royal PITA at $1,250/year were a pleasure for $10K a year. Client always paid quickly; they just wanted way more hand-holding than $1,250 bought.

And most people's definition of wealthy is "someone who makes $30K more than we do" or similar. Works whether they make $30K or $330K.

I always fill them out -- if nothing else, I assure myself that there is nothing egregious I have missed by seeing it all tie out nicely.

Got it in one. Take the income so you can get the credit. And your use of "wealthy" really does belong in quotes. I have seen far too many clients get *nothing* for grants or scholarships because of income that is "too high" and also have AGI "too high" for credits, who have a 80-year-old 3-bedroom house that needs a new roof they cannot afford to replace. Too high my hindquarters.

But if the parents count the $200 as taxable income, they might get a smidgen of tax credit. For $200 it's probably not worth the bother, though, once you go through it all. How desperate are they to save ~$20 in taxes?

Cutie pies, every single one of them!

and has a dance party in the elevator... Sheriff's deputy dance party

What a beautiful boy -- and you look so happy, JanitorBob!

I stand sometimes when my weak hip starts aching.

And now Joe Cocker, again after a battle with cancer. BBC article on Joe Cocker

Only for naps! Like in that amazing workstation recliner that @easytax linked in another thread.

Wow, @easytax what a concept! I recall trying to work after my appendectomy; somehow they managed to wrench my weak hip and sprain it and I could neither stand nor sit comfortably, and I alternated between those two positions and laying down on the sofa when my hip just hurt too much to continue. With that reclining function I could have worked in comfort And *not* have needed to move to catch a snooze, either.