Catherine

Yes, way overdue. But once the government is the ONLY health insurer, good luck getting ANY dispute resolved in your favor. It'll be like getting an OIC approved -- at BEST.

jainen -- try reading "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg. Just give it a try.

And the other side of it is this: we have a very good family friend who was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer. This is, like ovarian cancer, one with almost no distinct symptoms until very late. They found it when he went in for a shoulder injury -- there was a weird spot on his shoulder X-ray. In Britain, Stage 4 kidney cancer patients are told to put their papers in order and say goodbye to their families. In this country, he underwent a very difficult experimental treatment course, mostly NOT covered by insurance. Today, four years later, he is status "NED" -- No Evidence of Disease. And has become a world expert on electronic patient records, to boot. How did they pay? They held fundraisers. Their church held fundraisers. And even filing bankruptcy (had they been pushed that far) would have been FINE with them considering their alternatives at the time. So NO, I do NOT want the government involved in ANY way with health care.

Many thanks to Lion and KC! I think the Mass return I can do without the duplication of returns -- but had determined that the other two would need to start by duplicating the original. I very much appreciate the duplicate-it-twice idea; I hadn't thought of that twist. And, yes, I'll charge them for the extra work. My husband keeps telling me I undercharge, and now you guys are ganging up on me, too, so he must be right. Catherine

Young couple. She lived and worked part-year in NJ. He lived in NY part-year but worked in NJ while finishing school. They married and moved to MA where they now both work. MA is a straight part-year resident return. But how would you folks approach the NY and NJ returns? I can't file her as a single part-year NJ resident; she's now married. I can't file him as single NY part-year resident and NJ non-resident; he's now married. Filing them as part-year or non-residents of both states (NY/NJ) doesn't accurately reflect the year, either - she never lived or worked in NY; he didn't live in NJ. Thoughts?

Fifty-six completed, fifteen waiting for e-file authorizations or acks, twenty-nine in process and/or waiting for further information from client, four ready for final review, about twenty-eight not in-house yet (most of whom have called to say they're late; the others are mainly my standard eight who call on 4/14 wanting extensions). Lots of folks real late this year.

Thank you, my friend!

Interesting that there are 520-something views of this thread, but only 16 votes.

Janitor Bob, hope you have a VERY

CONGRATULATIONS on your son's engagement!! Thank you for the response. Funny how things make more sense when your head stops pounding. Eventually I switched to printing stuff until I gave up for the night, but I was worrying that issue like a terrier with a fresh bone and couldn't make sense of it. I could see the pieces, but it was just a jumble. I hate migraines; they really scramble your brain. Catherine

You did indeed, and I was able to get the document, too. Congratulations!

Thank you; that makes sense. Catherine

Hi folks -- plodding through taxes all day despite an absolutely splitting headache. This client got a couple hundred $$ from a securities litigation settlement. Stocks held are in a regular account, not an IRA of any kind. Still owns all shares; hasn't sold a one since the original purchase several years ago. So far as I can think at the moment (which isn't far, let me tell you), this isn't ordinary income but rather a basis adjustment and should be on Sch D rather than Line 21, yes? But -which way- does the adjustment go? Basis addition, because it's getting taxed in 2009? Yes? I tried putting a cold cloth on my head but it just steamed all the cold away in about two seconds.... thank you all.

Has anyone else noticed that the Schedule D import sheets and carry-forward pages (08 to 09 AND 09 to 10) print out THREE times in a return? Even though in the print manager listing, they're only there once?? It's happened to me now on about five returns -- ONLY where I've used the Schedule D import from csv files. And the EFC this year seems never to connect on the first attempt -- it sits there, bombs out, and the goes through flawlessly and quickly on the second attempt. Catherine

Hope you have a VERY

My darling Booger -- I hope that you have a marvelously , Catherine

Thanks for letting us know the result!

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

How about this one? "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." John Stuart Mill

Never mind. Found the info I needed on another forum and the link was no one of the e-file pages in the ATX program. All set. Sometimes the best way to find info is to give up and ask -- then it comes out of hiding!

As it turns out, I have one (only one) NY return this year. Should I have registered with NY to e-file ONE return? I can't recall and can't find the thread. Thanks. Catherine

Just double-checking here -- If I have a prior-year return, it should go to the IRS Center where -this- year's return would be filed - correct? The 2006 return I just finalized would have been sent, in 2006, to Andover MA -- which now does NO individual returns. So instead it goes to the center that will take this year's return? (Hartford CT/Kansas City MO, with/without payment.) Before I send instructions to some -very- not-with-it clients, I wanted to double-check. Thanks. Catherine I'm probably certifiable trying to work on prior-year returns a) while my daughter's birthday party is going on in the next room, and I am fighting off a headache most likely caused (and at least contributed to!) by (a).

After one "oops" a couple of years ago I started to hold state e-files -- thanks to advice from members of this forum (and a belated thank you, whoever you were). This has had the delightful side effect of several years of no substantive Federal e-file rejections! Who says sympathetic magic doesn't work? However, long around April 12th I stop holding those state returns. Catheirne

My deepest sympathies to your poor client.

Hope you have a VERY