Catherine

The easiest way to make them stop is to get a different number. If you don't want to do that, ask your phone provider about selective call blocking. This assumes you have the caller list with numbers that have been used... and you will have to have the phone company block each of those numbers and add new ones as they turn up. Really, if you are the only one with the number... why not just get a different one assigned? It's a pain, sure -- but less of a pain than constantly updating the "blocked caller" list. Yes, there should be a way to stop all these calls -- but there isn't. The person with the problems made up a number specifically so s/he would not get those calls, and it is working brilliantly as far as they are concerned.

Why are you even considering taking this guy back? Lying, verbally abusive, happy to commit tax fraud, self-righteous, financially irresponsible.... "I am not taking new clients, nor do I accept back former clients who left."

Regardless of the right emergency number to call, it's a good warning. Just because the blue lights flash does not mean you are being pulled over by someone legitimate.

I've seen Box 3 (as well as Box 6 and Box 7) used for payments by health insurance companies to therapists of various kinds. 6 & 7 seem to be the most common but there are a few who gravitate towards 3. I put the amounts on Sch C as that is where they belong. If it was a trustee fee, and the person was not in the business of being a trustee, then I'd look at Line 21. So far as I know, the IRS wants the $$ claimed somewhere - facts and circumstances determine where.

I still have the download files for 12.10 if someone wants them and cannot find them on the official site. PM me. I shelled out for Drake and have had to use it on several returns where ATX just froze; would not even let me open one return (crash), would not let me print another return (crash), would not let me.... you know the drill. Just those several returns paid for Drake (which format I really do NOT like), kept my customers happy, and me sane. Or as sane as I ever get, anyway.

He used to be 13; close enough!

My baby girl turns twenty (TWENTY -- when on earth did THAT happen?!?!?!) on Sunday. She wants her birthday dinner on Friday so she has time to eat her leftovers before she goes back to school after spring break on Sunday afternoon. I ordered her cake today. And I have bronchitis and a fever and don't know if I'll even be able to go have a celebratory dinner with her. Wah. I am feeling more than a little overwhelmed and pouty right now. Whining mope over; thanks for being good sports and not heaving bricks at me through the computer!

All school maps must now conjoin Idaho with Montana, as Idaho's shape is too similar to a gun's. Or at least to the shape the pop-tart was eaten into by the kid who was suspended.

A client of mine, several years ago, received an unwarranted refund check in the mail. HE was able to fight the inevitable interest charge on the "overpayment" by presenting back to them their un-cashed check. If your client wishes to take her $7K and return the rest, I strongly recommend that she take a check IN PERSON to the nearest IRS office and get a signed & dated receipt from them.

I had one bozo lady a couple years ago call the office on -CHRISTMAS DAY- while we were eating dinner. I closed the office door, but you could still hear the phone ringing and the answering machine taking a message. No, the client (FORMER client, now) was not Jewish or Hindu or any other faith, AND she knew the office was in my house (right next to the dining room). Good grief. No amount of money (that she didn't have anyway) can make up for that; she got fired. As I should have done long before except I was trying to hold off 'til after Christmas. Yikes; some people!

Dear Client, Before I work on your 1120 with the incomplete documentation, I require payment of your 6-months-past-due bill -- as clearly stated in my engagement letter. Yes, that means you. No, I will not finish this return first. And for the second year in a row, when I say I need expenses, "AmEx $18K" is NOT an expense. It is a payment method. Sincerely yours,

We went to the range to practice for an hour tonight. Very decadent.

I have a couple of trusts I did in Drake and those claim they are e-file ready (I just don't have the trustee's signature yet). (For the most part I'm still plugging away with ATX as I still really prefer it, but I've had a couple returns in ATX that cannot be printed, e-filed, etc., without crashing the program and those I have replicated and e-filed from Drake. Hate the format but it gets things _done_ and off my "undone" list.)

Ditto to what Lion said -- we love you here and appreciate you! Go hug your current wife and raise a glass/say a prayer for the one who has passed on to a better world.

Over on the "other" forum, folks had a work-around of duplicating the 2011 return, deleting the un-wanted state _there_ then rolling over from that one and re-entering. Oy. Also an official ATX person said the next update should address this (note use of the conditional) and that there is no known workaround. (The following post was the other user who DID have a work-around. An annoying one, but a work-around. Once again the users are more facile than the techies.)

I did post it in the other forum and last time I checked (before dinner!) no one had responded. Don't recall if anyone had even read it. Thanks for letting me know I should tell them, though. I thought they were monitoring over here, too, and so would not have thought to _report_ over there -- I was just looking for help.

Again, maybe. I do know someone who set up a corporation and definitely had a profit motive -- and no stomach/aptitude/courage for chasing multiple leads. He would generate interest from some company, give them a dog-and-pony show on how wonderful it would be for them to hire him and his company... and wait by the phone for six months for them to call before giving up hope and slowly searching for a new lead. His business didn't get very far very fast -- but last I heard he was still _in_ business and over the years (two decades, now, roughly?) he has had some good contracts come out of it. Still, for much of the first years, he sat by the phone waiting for it to ring. And spending money on equipping the business for the big contract that was going to send him to fat city. LOL.

Will try the letter. Tried the cover sheet and that crashed the program.

Client moved in 2011 so we needed a part-year return for the old state (Mass). Don't need it for 2012; no Mass-source income, no residency. Every time I try to delete the main form, it first warns me that it is part of a set (form, letter, cover); do I still want to delete? Answering "yes" crashes program. Anyone have a clue how I can delete this not-needed state form set? Catherine

Trying to delete all interest plus 1099INT worksheet did NOT work -- it crashed the program and the 1099INT worksheet was still there.

Will try that but may end up deleting all interest plus 1099INT worksheet and re-entering. Thanks.

There is more than one corporation with no income these days. Clients billed who then skipped out on paying. Clients who keep promising, "_next_ month we'll have the cash to get started on this project," etc. There are also plenty of sham corporations where folks are trying to deduct personal expenses. Facts and circumstances! Is she advertising/networking? Have an active web site? Go to Rotary Club, Lions' Club, Chamber of Commerce, BNI mettings? Give "public information" talks that are meant to drum up business? If this - take the expenses. Or does she stay home on Facebook waiting for her phone to ring? If this -- give up on it!

Here are nine minutes well worth your time. Bill Whittle's "Eat The Rich" http://youtu.be/661pi6K-8WQ Plus two must-read essays: "The Big Pulchra Vera Essay" parts 1 & 2. Ann sees things very either/or and I disagree with many of her conclusions, but her points are well worth contemplating. If only for her further exposition on this theme, you should read it. "When the truth is ugly, it must STILL be declared. Boldly. Loudly. Persistently. Failure to declare ugly truths is itself an act of dishonesty, a bearing of false witness, and it makes impossible any attempt to push through the superficial ugliness and get to the pure, holy beauty beyond." http://barnhardt.biz/

They qualify IF both parents work. Then it is considered "summer daycare" basically -- keeps the kiddies occupied safely while mom and dad are at work. And yes, split between overnight and day costs for overnight camp.

If you have a "pdf printer" on your machine (Adobe, PDF 995, other), it should show up in your printer list. Choose that printer FIRST (changing the printer after checking all your boxes resets those boxes to default -- very annoying; ask my how I know...), check your form boxes, print. You'll get a pdf print box asking for where to save file and what to name it.