Catherine

If Jack's solution doesn't work for you, let me know. I have the forms. Catherine

Here's one my cousin sent me. Humorless persons beware; the rest of you have a good chuckle. Normally I avoid discussing any advice regarding buying or selling of stocks, but I felt this is important enough to share and warn you since this explosive situation might prove to be yet another ENRON. Please review any holdings you might have in the following stocks: American Can Interstate Water National Gas Company Northern Tissue Company Due to uncertain market conditions, I advise you to sit tight on your American Can, hold your Water, and let go of your Gas. You may be interested to know that Northern Tissue touched a new bottom today, and millions were wiped clean. It's a tough market out there. Be careful!

Subject: Taking Dad Shopping I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes (he is 84). We decided to grab a bite at the food court. I noticed he was watching a teenager sitting next to him. The teenager had spiked hair in all different colours; green, red, orange and blue. My dad kept staring at him. The teenager would look and find him staring every time. When the teenager had enough, he sarcastically asked: " What's the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life?" Knowing my Dad, I quickly swallowed my food so that I would not choke on his response; knowing that he would have a good one. And in classic style he did not bat an eye in his response: "Got stoned once and (rude word for had relations with) a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my son"

By 1936, the "Progressive" movement had infected BOTH parties as well as the Supreme Court. "Precedent" is not synonymous with "correct" and nowhere in the Constitution is the Supreme Court given sole determination of Constitutionality. "Precedent" when used in medicine is termed "anecdote" and is dismissed out of hand; they same standard should apply Constitutionally. The Federalist Papers show over and over again that the commerce clause and general welfare clause were to be read _very_ strictly and narrowly. The Anti-Federalist papers show over and over again exactly how the to-be-created federal government was going to over-reach its Constitutional bounds. Despite the emotional hyperbole of many of those writings, they were correct.

Reminds me of the tale of the farmer who won a million dollars in the lottery. Neighbor asked him what he was planning to do with all that money he won. His answer, "I guess I'll keep on farming 'til it's gone." As for us, I got our first ripe tomato today, the eggplant has flowers, the chard and beans are growing like gangbusters, and it's too stinking hot to go anywhere near the garden after about 8AM.

http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/congress-enumerated-powers/

Has everyone done their homework and re-read the Declaration? http://constitutiondecoded.com/1/post/2013/07/independence-day-2013.html

1120-H cannot be e-filed (or could not for 2012). One of the last mail-in forms.

Here's one for today: The Society for the Preservation of Tithesis commends your ebriated and scrutable use of delible and defatigable, which are gainly, sipid and couth. We are gruntled and consolate that you have the ertia and eptitude to choose such putably pensible tithesis, which we parage.

If I were to be punish-ed by every little pun I shed I'd hie me to a puny shed and there I'd hang my punnish head. Have we all now been pun-ished sufficiently?

Ba-dum- CHA!!!

I actually came to this thread intending to post a link, and got side-tracked... http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/lheal/the-irs-continues-its-abuse-of-power?awesm=freedo.mw_bT

Jainen is correct that the term "property" was specifically changed here -- because even in the Declaration, the founders' generation was *already* looking ahead to the abolition of the disgusting practice of slavery (originally foisted onto the colonies by the British government, and at that time legal in 9 of the 13 colonies). John Locke and Frederic Bastiat specifically address the issue of property in their earlier writings. However, the underlying principle of property reappears in several places in the Declaration (read and find for yourselves; text is available here http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/ and other places online). The federal government, in the Constitution, is specifically and purposefully NOT given any jurisdiction over the internal affairs of states except in extremely limited areas. All the "social good" practices are left to the People and the States, to deal with as they, internally, wish, through their state constitutions and state elected representatives and charitable organizations/churches. The entire purpose of the federal government was to have jurisdiction ONLY over a small number of areas that require a united front: national defense, standardization of currency, standardization of import/export, peaceful dealings with other nations, uniform bankruptcy code; plus a few areas where states (or states and federal) might squabble. There are links to a number of articles that folks may find interesting, here: http://constitutiondecoded.com/events-links-to-articles.html

Sounds about right!

Sent to me some years ago... your mileage may vary. I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me. By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace. The article read: "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." Such simple advice. So, I looked around to see all the things I started and hadn't finished. Today I finished one bottle of red wine, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, my Prozac, a box of chocolates and a half gallon of rocky road ice-cream. You have no idea how good I feel......

For reference: Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," in its entirety: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/text.html However, Taxed consistently refused to comprehend that this country is NOT a democracy; it is a Constitutional Republic. There is a substantial difference between the two! The Declaration of Independence (part of the "organic laws" of the country) clearly states that the sole legitimate purpose of government is to secure our rights (rights, endowed by our Creator, not separable (unalienable), not dependent upon any government or government document for existence, not dependent upon any other person to provide). That's it -- no other reason or purpose. See for yourself: http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/ We, as humans (and as you stated earlier, JohnH), have our own obligations to take care of the poor and infirm. My position, after years of analysis *begun from a very liberal - almost socialist - viewpoint* which changed reluctantly but wildly upon examination of hard evidence, is that it is both impossible (on a practical level) and immoral (on a personal level) to attempt to foist on to the government those tasks which belong to us as individuals. I go into this in depth in some of my writings, and will not re-create those here. In brief: Impossible because no bureaucracy can actually do the job, and the bigger the bureaucracy the _worse_ job they ultimately do (those who deserve help don't get it; those who don't deserve it, do get it); Immoral because we cannot actually out-source our own obligations -- yet act (far too often) as though we can.

TaxCPANY's advice is good -- I have one association that I do as a C-corp (their non-member dues from pool memberships push that decision), but two others that are little condo associations (8 units and 4 units). All they have in "common" is lawn mowing, snow removal, and outdoor/hallway lighting. For the little ones it's easy-peasy; they get some monthly fees, pay the electric bill, lawn/snow guys, get the fire alarm and sprinkler tested, pay for a couple of repairs. All on the lettered part. The interest on their savings account goes in the numbered part (with interest rates so low, that's next to nothing). For the folks with the pool, there is payroll and depreciation and other things that looks/feels/(and acts) more like a corporation, even putting the member/non-member fee ratio aside. Make sure to check your state requirements! Mass. has a special form for homeowner associations which is nothing like the 1120-H. And my little guys end up paying a couple bucks tax to the state on their earned interest.

Any time!

This is a super simple form for homeowner associations. The biggest thing is to get good records from the association itself. For many associations, most all their receipts annually go to paying for common area items -- roof repairs, heat and chemicals for the pool, mowing, etc. Some of them put money aside annually for reserves. All that income and all those expenses go in the lettered section. The "Gross Income (excluding exempt function income)" section is for interest, dividends (usually on the reserves), gain from sale of stuff (old riding lawnmower?) Take a look at their books, and I bet you'll find most everything goes in the top section. PM me if you need a walk-through. Catherine

that's my plan -- to re-do a couple simple and then all my more complex returns on Drake, this summer, to learn the system. By then I'll be really prepared to beta-test ATX2013 and see how it compares.

"So, it's pretty crazy. Look, we're bailing out Wall Street, we're bailing out banks, we're bailing out car companies. In fact, did you know there's a special box on your tax form this year you can check if you want a portion of your taxes to actually go to running the government?" --Jay Leno

It depends! I've taken some online classes in areas where I have not found live classes to take, and they have been both good and useful. You have to choose carefully and actually put the time in to learning. It is also less easy to bluff your way through an online class than it is to sit and snooze through a live class. I see it in meetings all the time; folks sitting in the back, asleep, or playing Monopoly or tetris on their iPad... they're not getting anything good for their time and money.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php This is so hysterically funny that I had tears streaming down my face as I read it. Even non-nerds should find it pretty darned amusing. For your further reading pleasure, you will note a reference to "tetrafluorohydrazine" -- this is rocket fuel. It will make more sense when you get there.

Can you ask to speak to this auditor's manager or supervisor? That is allowable in other areas of the IRS. Then either deal with the supervisor or request the case be transferred to someone with greater experience in IRS regs.

Can't go wrong with the classics.