Catherine

I'm going to add my voice to JohnH's -- this guy needs a tax lawyer. There is simply no way this flake can pay you anything near what he will cost you in time and aggravation. And from the sounds of it, he's very close to being past the point where you could help him even if he were NOT a flake. Once you got to the point of saying he didn't show up for his appointment but sent his girlfriend with the letter -- that was it. He doesn't take it seriously. He won't take you seriously. He won't give you what you need when you need it. He will skip future appointments. And he will whine at you the whole time about how unfair it all is. Hit yourself in the head with a brick instead -- it will hurt less, heal cleaner, and be over WAY faster.

Definitely -- or else when the minor DOES have enough income and tries to use the carryforward, there will be letters and explanations due then. Easier and better to just keep the trail clear.

This is just SO funny -- enjoy!! The Mom Song - with lyrics

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I haven't used chat features very much, but it doesn't hurt to try it out. I am -really- flattered that folks (BullDog Tom) would think of me as someone to include in a request-chat/meeting, especially considering KC was first on that list! Thanks for thinking of this, Eric, and we'll see how it goes. I clicked on that "Donate" button not very long ago, but I hope you will LET US KNOW if the funds are looking a little thin. Can we ever donate to you and set the money for the specific purpose of sending you out for a nice dinner or something? Catherine

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Go to the E-File Manager tab. Support Menu => Customer Service Utilities => Synchronize E-File Info With EFC

Ummm -- today is the National Day of Prayer. Does that help? (Sure can't hurt!)

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? 3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? 6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? 7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? 8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges? 9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there? 10. Why are they called " stands" when they are made for sitting? 11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"? 12.. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected? 13.. Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites? 14. Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things? 15. Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds? 16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it? 17.. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? 18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? 20. Why is bra singular and panties plural? 21.. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead? 22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase? 23. How come abbreviated is such a long word? 24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them? 25.. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? 26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one? 27. Christmas - What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks? 28. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?

Yep; me and Dr. King, we keep hoping for that day when character matters. Winston Churchill said, "With integrity, nothing else matters. Without integrity, nothing else matters." How very true.

So, when does prosecution of Geithner start? We are (or, at least, we were) a nation of laws, without a privileged elite to whom the laws do not apply.

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My deepest sympathies, taxbilly. And thanks to Marilyn for her post.

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Julie, Tom, and Gail -- Thank you all for the great laugh I had reading your replies! Julie -- I have gone by my full name since I graduated from college. When you're only 5 feet tall and look like you're twelve (at age 21), you need all the "grown-up-ness" you can get your hands on. I used to substitute teach (an alternative to accounting during engineering lay-offs), and at 26, teaching in a middle school, I got asked for my hall pass by one of the other teachers! Tom -- loved your comment. Gail -- if one of my clients ever manages to move me to violence, I'll use my bare hands! But that's extremely unlikely, as I can vent here, hike their bill, and then wave a final goodbye with a big smile on my face. By and large, I have wonderful clients. And every year I fire one or two who aren't as wonderful as the others.

New client this year; newly divorced, never done her own taxes before, LOUD and somewhat abrasive in voice and manner. Excuses for everything; took her FOUR appointments to actually get here and bring her documents. Got a whiny call AND email from her today wanting to know why her taxes aren't done, why I haven't called her, does she have to pick up her papers, deadline is approaching (5/11 here in MA), she's worried, yadda yadda blah blah SHUT UP BITCH!!!! Meanwhile, I've sent her THREE emails in the past couple of weeks all asking for the same information over and over and getting one item out of three - maybe. The last bits I need to FINISH her stupid returns. Just venting; thanks for listening (reading) and sympathy. Now I can send her another email without being bitchy back. But her bill just went UP.

This is an IMPORTANT and very welcome improvement in the EFC.

Twelve places to respond; I got eight. Didn't recall that the Lone Ranger was armed for werewolves, though. I missed the silver bullet, Freddy the Freeloader, and Rt. 66. Also missed the draft cards even though I knew it; brain blanked out on them.

Here's an odd thing about my synching with the EFC -- I did NOT lose all my "completed" checks!! I gritted my teeth and was ready to lose them, but that didn't happen.. Your mileage may vary and with your client list I'd be VERY wary of trying. But I was really glad to not lose all my completed checkmarks. And also - CONGRATULATIONS on getting the kids all through school!!

I had to go back to see it, as well. That's why proofreaders read -backwards- as well as forwards. Sentence diagramming. Now -there- is a memory that brings shivers! I think my elementary school teachers weren't very sure about it themselves, because they certainly could never explain grammar well enough for me to understand it. Learned what I do know of grammar by studying foreign languages, and how to write by reading good literature.

And there's a lesson to me to try NOT to be a smart-aleck -- at least when I'm rushing!

$395 regular price, $158 discount, so $237 was the post-discount price. And I was told that the renewal is 50% off the first-purchase price - so that should be $197.50 next year. Still paying for what -used- to be included, which is annoying. The claim was that there were too many complaints about it causing slow-downs and problems in the tax program, so they split it out. How would anyone EVER figure a slow tax program was caused by the asset manager? What-EVER.

I just noticed that a Federal I filed on 4/20 STILL says "Transmitted to EFC" and the state is being held. I'm going to the EFC at MyATX and see if I can find out anything there. If not, then a call or email to ATX is on the list.

Should not that verb form had better been "authoring"? (We need a smiley for nose-in-the-air!)

Rita -- Glad to hear you're OK and hope that others are, including our colleagues/friends at Drake software too.