Catherine

I skimmed it quickly and briefly. Yikes! A very bad combination of desperate and furious.

But how do I report this? There's no clear place for it on the K-1 -- Line 8a as a long-term loss so it can go to the personal Sch D as a business loss? Or does it not go through the K-1 at all? In which case, where and how is it reported?

Line 3 on Form 6251 is not auto-filling for a couple of my returns. I'm having to override to put in the amount from Schedule A that's supposed to be flowing through. Anyone else seen this? Better yet, have a fix? Thanks.

YES the address. I was really tired of hand-writing it on the record page for clients, and it always looked a little cheesy.

Indoor plumbing gets my vote!!

Gail -- that was just WONDERFUL! Thanks so much.

You have my thoughts and prayers.

I print from the pdf file because I can't get duplex printing on my printer straight from ATX. I think it's a problem in their coding, as it's been an issue with two different printers over several years. So I go to pdf (which I provide on a CD to the client - no "can I have an extra three copies please" calls), and print duplex from there. I can also watermark from my printer, which is smaller and lighter than the ATX watermark - easier to read and saves toner. That's another thing -- the ATX watermark (when I've tried it this year) comes out all over the map! Too big, offset to one corner or the other of the paper -- it's just WRONG.

Anybody know what's going on with the ATX pdf printer? Half my cover sheets (usually but not always state) and my signature pages (8879 & state equivalents) are coming out TOO BIG TO FIT ON ONE PAGE. (Just like the previous words.) And my comparisons are teeny-tiny like they're meant to be in landscape mode but came out portrait instead. I'm having to print separate files for cover sheets, signature pages, comparisons -- and multiple iterations until they come out right!!! This is NOT workable for an entire season. Anyone else seen this? Anyone else gotten this FIXED?!?! Thanks, Catherine

Have an S-corp that folded, still owing a few pretty pennies to the shareholders. How do I deal with those? Too tired to think right now. Thanks all, and I think it's time to go to sleep. Snow overnight so I'll have to shovel before the first client shows up at 8:30. And if I get shoveled out that client will, of course, cancel. Catherine

New client brings in old problems. Came to me with an issue of consumer tax product over-counting his mortgage on Sch A & Sch E, but if I fix one item I look over the whole thing -- and of course I found more questions. Have solved most them but here's one I'm still pondering. He bought a two-family house. Rents one apartment and lives in the other. But also some years rents out additional bedroom in his apartment. I found the assessment info so I have the building and land values. But what is the right way to depreciate this property? A. Depreciate the whole building even though he lives in half. B. Depreciate only the full-rental half. C. Depreciate the full-rental half plus the rented out space in his half for the years when he did that. I've got my thoughts -- what are yours? Thanks for info/advice! Catherine

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

Tenenz has a standard 5% discount for online orders, as well.

One of my favorites is the braille instructions on the DRIVE-UP ATM's.

As of today, there is snow that fell THIS YEAR, on the ground, in 49 states. The only holdout is Hawaii -- and it has snow on a couple of the mountains from previous years.

RitaL - Somehow I'd missed the post about your car -- I hope it's all back together again very soon, and that all the paperwork mess is cleared up quickly as well. Catherine

King Friday the 13th on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood used to sing a song: "Propel, propel, propel your craft, Gently down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is but an illusion." The scary part is that it actually scans -- you -can- sing it to the tune of Row Your Boat.

I'm with you there, Joel. Although I'll settle for getting ALL their sorry asses voted OUT of office this November. Scum, the lot of them, with one or two honorable folk - exceptions that prove the rule.

The "tyranny" of the symbol is only because we the people have allowed the Federal gov't to usurp our, and our states', powers. They've crept in bit by bit since the days of Woodrow Wilson (a Constitution-hating tyrant wannabe; the more history I read the more loathsome he becomes). This November we get a chance to FIRE the whole stinkin' lot of power-hungry, Constitution-ignoring egomaniacs in the House, and a third of the Senate. Both parties!! This is NOT about parties -- it's about usurpation of powers they are not entitled to. Dump your legis-critter and start feeling proud of what the US stands for again. I prefer the Gadsden flag myself, but if a WW2 vet wants the Stars and Stripes, God bless him and may it make him proud to see it.

1099's take a long time to get accepted. Make sure the form version is correct before transmittal, then if they get rejected or you don't hear send email to tech support. They got a couple of mine cleared out in a day after I contacted them. At least this year they ARE responding to support emails!

OldJack; I hope and pray that you and your family stay safe! May the scum trying to hurt you get run over by a truck NOW, with just enough left to identify so you can breathe easy.

Except that we are NOT a democracy; we are a Constitutional Republic. There are important differences.

On the client copy of the return I highlight the "total tax" line (#60 this year).

@KC -- No problem. These folks were so stressed out about the house purchase it would not have been smart for them to delay. It was a short sale and the bank had dragged the process out for so long it was obscene -- and that was just the surface problem. I'm just really sorry that in addition to everything else they missed the cutoff. If they'd been in that house when they -should- have been (August!) without all the daily (hourly) "are we going to lose this house" crap, no one would care about the credit; it would be down in the noise. @Cathy -- Yes, that would be royally annoying. Yet another problem with constantly changing laws where no one can plan anything without looking back and thinking "Argh!!"

Not that simple, KC. My folks consist of an out-of-work spouse going stir crazy without enough to do, and a working spouse who had just started a high-profile, much-awaited job and was going nuts over multiple moves and stressing over the closing. Frankly for them the money would be nice but I'm not sure they wouldn't have had a major meltdown in the extra month.