Catherine

Once you get used to it, it is really fast. I can click through an entire return faster than ATX was changing pages.

I understand why YOU are not comfortable with it; I wouldn't be either. Your insurance folks might be a good place to start.

Dear Client -- Thank you so much for sending along the W-2 from YOUR job that I asked about and was told there wasn't because you got laid off. That was indeed why your wages line looked so low; it just had your wife's income! Thank you especially for now having to re-do and re-print your return AND spend money for Priority Mail to send it to you -- and your wife paid me when she picked the returns up last night so I can't even add on a re-print and mailing fee. At least I didn't have to deal with ACA nonsense since when (just) your health insurance got cancelled you could still go to the VA - so that counts as full-year coverage.

ROTFLMAO

It's going to be close to 50F here on Wednesday and I am already planning to close up for a bit and take a walk mid-day.

I have not used ATX for a couple of years now - so things may have changed. However, I learned the hard way not even to *open* a return until I got some e-file ack (other than "pending") from ATX - or my e-files ended up rejected. Call tech support (back when they still answered their phones, so 2009/2010 tax year or something) and they told me that if a return was changed before the IRS drain, their system rejected the e-file assuming the return was no longer as-filed. It was to protect us from having to amend. Or some such.

It changes the return on your own computer. And IF the efile has not gone to the IRS yet (and it does have to be quick), that fact makes ATX reject the efile.

Something funny to help us through the time change. http://www.scarymommy.com/daylight-saving-trailer-spring-forward-edition/

I found it by accident... went back into an efiled return; didn't even change anything - but was there longer than auto-save time. Return was "changed" and that caused my efile to reject. Fine once I resubmitted. Used it later, though, on purpose for JUST the reason you gave. Hit the button, and five minutes later an email, "oops we just got" form whatever. I was SO glad to see that "EF Reject" notice!

My bad!! It's the "Google Search" -- middle tab between "Calendar" and "MyATX" in the main title lines.

It will also contain negative A/R if recurring invoices post automatically on, say, January 1st -- but payments pre-dated that (for example, business space rent).

I agree with michaelmars and Jack from Ohio. He is in this with a profit motive. You can see the likely train wreck -- but he can't; he still thinks he's going to strike it rich. Who knows, maybe he will be the one who does! I know one person who actually makes enough from selling Mary Kay to live on. That doesn't mean all the tried-and-failed women in her downline weren't serious - it means they didn't have the (1) natural market this lady (former nurse) had, (2) the time/money available to put in the HUGE startup time investment, or (3) the go-for-the-jugular sales push (or ability). But they *wanted* to be profitable.

There is, in ATX. Or at least there was... Go change the return. ANY change. Add a 1 somewhere. Save it. That makes the EF Pending go to EF Rejected. Will work from the time you send the efile to ATX until the efile has been sent to the IRS.

Indeed. But if you want details for charities, Charity Navigator is a good source of all-in-one-place info.

I think if you use "Advanced Search" you can use 3 letters; Eric made that adjustment a year or three ago.

Animals that accidentally saw you naked... http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/03/06/animals-who-accidentally-saw-you-naked/

You and me and most of the rest of us too.

My monitors tilt, so if I just get a shelf to put the keyboard and mouse on, that might work for me. Sometimes there are serious advantages to being short -- this might be one of them. Might not be too hard to get a shelf the right size and height.

Yes, please - a link! A friend of mine has one also and raves about it but his taste runs to "Cadillac" brands and lines. I'm more of a Suzuki girl, myself.

All these postings of the popcorn makes me WANT popcorn!

Unless he expects *more* income next year... I have a few that do that dance.

Local farm stand sells flowers; I was looking at them the other day and just might go for it. Thanks for the nudge!

If he is under the filing threshold for that state, I don't think so. If above, he has to file.

Honey, just line 'em up and use a high-powered round.

When I get price shoppers I just *love* it when they ask if my fees are negotiable. I tell them, "Yes, they are - UPWARDS only." They RUN. Tee hee. (There is an old Rita Rudner comic routine where she talks about getting rid of boyfriends you can't stand and who won't commit. She said to tell them "I love you, I never want to be apart from you, I want to have your babies." then she said, "Sometimes they leave skid marks." I want those price shopping PITA folks to leave skid marks.)