Catherine

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There is indeed a QuickBooks for Mac -- however, be warned that Intuit has always treated this product about the same way you might treat a distant cousin who tells rude, non-funny jokes in a loud voice and doesn't bathe regularly -- you'll invite him for Thanksgiving because you have to, but you're going to sit as far away from him as you can manage. Many of the standard features in QB for Windows either do not exist or are severely limited in QB for Mac. It will look and feel like QB/Windows of several years ago, at best. However, it does exist, it IS better for a business than Quicken, and it does work just fine within its' limitations. And you can convert from Quicken files to QB files. Pay attention to the changes that have to be made to the Quicken file, and be prepared to try a couple of times before you're satisfied with the conversion (Quicken to QB tends to give some oddball detritus, and sometimes it takes an iteration or two to get a file you're content with). Of course, make a good backup/copy of the Quicken file OFF the conversion computer (CD or flash drive or other, dis-connectable hard drive), so that if something goes awry, you have an uncontaminated data file available for the next attempt.

Hi Booger! Hope you and the missus are enjoying the summer. _Excellent_ idea on scanning the 8879's, and I hope you don't mind if I steal it. That would get rid of a couple of _big_ folders in my files. (Thanks also to Margaret for posting the proof that this will be acceptable.) Catherine

But the first-year "loss leader" approach is certainly used in many industries. Do you think we can get Ally Bank to write tax software?

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Leave it up there, then! If anyone ever questions why it is expired, you can tell them it was the last one you needed from NY and you left it up as a reminder that you never have to deal with their horrid web site ever again.

It's not CATEGORIES, jainen, and you should know that if you have ever used QuickBooks. It is VENDORS. And, as long as Lion's client keeps her meal receipts, Lion is NOT required to ask for those receipts or see those receipts. We are NOT auditors for the IRS -- and when they require that, I predict wholesale exodus of many, many return preparers (EAs, CPAs, and the new registration categories as well). There is NO business purpose for this client of Lion's to track her meal vendors. The information ONLY serves the IRS. We get that you like to take outrageous positions to make a point sometimes. But please keep them outside the realms of the fruitless and pointless. This was both.

Make a paper airplane? That's what I may do with mine!

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A friend of mine gave me the first shirt as a gift -- it gets quite the response when I wear it!

Had a lady a few years ago come to me when she got an IRS letter. Said the phone number of her preparer had been disconnected. The return said "self-prepared" and she told me that the preparer told _her_ that she'd have a much higher chance of being audited if he signed it, so as a favor to her, he wouldn't sign. There will be more of those types. There was a cartoon in the New Yorker last year, with two men in suits in an office. One says to the other, "These new regulations are going to fundamentally change the way we get around them." 'Nuff said.