Catherine

Have the daughter of a client who is now my client. Hasn't filed since 2005 (and it's always a long story, isn't it?). I -finally- have the documentation to fill out her forms -- but need an address for the return! She is due a small refund on her 1040 for 2006 (so we want to get it in quickly). ATX software for 2006 says to send to Andover MA and I know that's no longer correct. Checked one of my 2009 returns that is due a small refund (so far, at least), and the address given is Kansas City MO. MyATX is of course down for maintenance and I can -never- get the search engine at irs.gov to give me anything but irrelevant gobbledygook. Does anyone here know if that Kansas City MO address is correct for a refund-due 2006 return? TIA, Catherine

Thanks for the laugh!

You guys are going to make me pull out my entire file of jokes collected over the years, aren't you? Just remember that you asked!

Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a letter from home one evening. Inside the letter was a $100 bill her parents had sent. Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture. As she read the letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post below. Quickly, she wrote, "Don't despair. Sister Barbara," on a piece of paper, wrapped the $100 bill in it, got the man's attention and tossed it out the window to him. The stranger picked it up, and with a puzzled expression and a tip of his hat, went off down the street. The next day, Sister Barbara was told that a man was at her door, insisting on seeing her. She went down, and found the stranger waiting. Without a word, he handed her a huge wad of $100 bills. "What's this?" she asked. "That's the $8,000 you have coming Sister," he replied. "Don't Despair paid 80-to-1."

I love this one!!!! Thanks!

Great one, KC. Here's a little one for those of us (most of us!) who remember Hollywood Squares and the great answers by Paul Lynde. Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather? A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

This one is for the mathematicians in the group: What do you get if you cross a mountain climber with a mosquito? Nothing -- you can't cross a scalar with a vector!

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Thanks for the warning. Instead of trying to register for Fee Collect, I'll instead tell that stupid pop-up to go away and not come back. When I signed up last year no one used it anyway.

Don't know, but one of my brothers-in-law is, and it fits -him- perfectly!!

Two physicists were riding in a hot air balloon and were blown off course sailing over a mountain trail, and were completely lost. They spotted a jogger running on the trail and they shouted, "Can you tell us where we are?" After a few minutes, the jogger yelled back, "You're up in a balloon." One physicist says to the other, "Just our luck to run into a mathematician!" "How do you know he was a mathematician?" asked the other. "First, he took a long time to answer. Second, his answer was 100% correct. And third, it was totally useless!"

So here's one for you: What do you get if you cross an atheist with a Jehovah's Witness? Someone who knocks on your door for no reason at all.

Tom -- CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And welcome to the club.

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Great reply! But this guy sure sounds too dumb to pour sand out of a boot with the directions written on the heel.

Now I want pie, too. Specifically, banana cream. And there's no where I know of that makes/serves it. Looks like a trip to the grocery for ingredients is in my near future.

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Well, yes, that's what I meant. Prep in ATX, check them for errors with AccuWage, then log in at the SSA and file there. But that process puts a "Created" efile in the ATX efile manager, which then just sits there doing nothing. That's all I meant. But perhaps you actually fill the W-2's out online at the SSA. I like going through the error check first to make sure I haven't messed anything up or missed anything.

Twelve pages (but nice colors!). I am reminded of bits from the MacNelly tax cartoon I've posted here before: Requested by the Department of Agriculture: How many talking chickens do you own? Names? Do any of them play the oboe? and Number of Parakeets subtracted from Gross Rotated Income (Plus Line 27 - unless greater than 12 miles) They forgot to address the issue of claiming pets as dependents, and the differing treatments of cats, dogs, and tree frogs. Yikes.

What fabulous news!!! Congratulations to your daughter -- you must be so proud!

I've been waiting for responses too, Pat. But I did recall from last year that they do take a while. W-2's never change from "Created" status, though, since they go through AccuWage and then are filed with the SSA and don't go through the EFC at CCH. (Is that enough acronyms for one sentence? Sheesh!)

Mass de-coupled from the Feds years ago but maintained those old forms for base calculations. So the statutes read "the base for calculating XYZ is the result from the 1993 Form 1040 Line blah-blah calculation". I think it's 1993. Circa then, anyway. And not only is Mass. not exempting the first $2400 of UI the way the feds are, they are recapturing the COBRA subsidy as income as well. It's going to be fun getting those amounts from clients! Catherine

One thing to keep in mind is that some states (MA for one) is NOT exempting that first $2400 from taxable income. I'm going to have to check flow-through numbers carefully, as I've seen plenty of instances with ATX over the years where numbers do NOT go where they're supposed to go. Catherine

What I do is put the pdf's in the computer folder for the client. I open the pdf on one monitor and have ATX open on the other monitor. There is a company (Copanion, I believe) that makes a product called GruntWorx (someone here recommended them last year; possibly KC but don't quote me). You upload your bare scan to them, and they organize and tag it all by document type. All 1099-INT's together, all K-1's, etc. Catherine

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