Catherine

Yay Birthday! Happy Happy! :bday:

Kea, My sympathies on your loss.

Glad to be of help!

I'll add to the happy birthday wishes! Happy Birthday, Chad! Sounds like you had a great day. Catherine

I'd still file the Mass return. If your client is listed as owner, she'll get a nastygram from Massachusetts demanding its' portion. Mass. renters get to deduct half their rent (up to a deduction maximum of $3,000 per year). They used to ask for the landlord's name and address right on the Form 1. They don't bother with that anymore since they have all the ownership records available online. So they'll be asking questions if you don't pre-empt and answer them first! Also, I don't know when your client left the state, but they are the very dickens to convince that you're no longer a resident, either. Catherine

Hi jasdlm -- If all your client has in Mass. is the rental, that is the only thing that should be showing on the Mass. return. The for NTS-L-NR should populate and show line 10 Mas AGI of 6337. That should qualify her for "no tax status" and then thre will be nothing on Form 1NR/PY page 4 line 40 (income tax total). Does this help? Catherine

Just saw this post and can't answer right now because I have to go out for a while. I will look into this (unless someone else has answered) when I get back and post then. Hang in there! Catherine

That has been my big question since this thread started, and my intention has been to call TRX after 4/15 and just ask them. I've been getting ATX Max, to get the business returns and all the states -- seems every year I need a new oddball state or form. But I don't seem to lose the old ones as quickly. And having all the payroll forms makes it much easier to service some of my accounting clients. So I don't want to downgrade, for sure! So if someone _knows already_ and is willing to post..... Or if no one does, I'll call and post the results here once they've told me. Catherine

I'm actually slowing down now. Most of the folks left are going on extension -- I'm missing data and for whatever reason they can't get it to me. And there's going to be one of the "Tea Party" events in Boston on the 15th; I'm taking my younger girl out of school (and my older one if she can get off of work) and we're going in for it. My husband is going to try to join us as well. Great way to finish off the tax season! Catherine

Frack. Forgot that part. What happens when you rent to a relative FOR fair market value and then they don't pay up after a month or two? After all, that's not the deal you made.

Put 'em on extension. That's what extensions are for! Do what you can and no more. Catherine

As sad as it is when clients pass on, what was more disturbing to me _last_ year was the number of new clients that I got because their prior _preparers_ had passed on suddenly. In fact, I got another one this year -- prior preparer just keeled over about a month or so ago. Lots of clients then have either time delays or more serious trouble just getting their original documents back. So take care of yourselves, everyone -- we owe it to ourselves, our families, _and_ our clents! Catherine

In the end I just over-rode the stinking worksheet. Sigh. I haven't got the patience to deal with tech (non)support right now. Thanks for all the good suggestions, though. I'll keep in mind the deleting and re-adding the form, and the others. Catherine

The turn-it-back-on-Eric joke was truly a thing of beauty. Thank you KC, Tom, Kyle -- and even Eric for starting this one. Catherine

How far back (years) does this go? Can you amend those prior years to show it as a money-losing rental (which is in fact what it was)? That makes the loss a business loss. doesn't make the son any less slimy. Or the broker, either. But those are non-tax problems. Or only tax problems sort of sideways.

Yes, the IRA contribution is on the IRA worksheet. And it flows through properly to Line 32 on the 1040. But the Form 8582 Line 7 worksheet line 27 has created a number out of thin air for self-employed SEP, SIMPLE, and qualified plans. Jump-to bunny for that line takes me to the BLANK Line 28 of the 1040. Jump-to from blank line 28 takes me to the worksheet, which has NO plan type chosen at the top "compute maximum contribution" line and nothing filled in lower down for deferrals or contribution rates or anything. But this 8582 line 7 worksheet _insists_ on putting some weird amount that does NOT match any allowable (but unchosen!) contribution amount for a SEP, SIMPLE, or other plan! It puts in $3354 for a Keough, SEP, 401k, or SARSEP, and $11,000 for a SIMPLE, or SIMPLE IRA. And if I pick "blank", for NO plan -- it puts $3354 on that worksheet line. Now, this work IN my client's favor by lowering the AGI to where they can take more of their rental loss. But it's not right and I don't know where to go to fix it. I have to over-ride that worksheet line. And I really don't like this oddball number popping in out of nowhere. And while all this is going on, the client keeps emailing wanting to know if I've finished. (They _were_ finished but then found more business miles for me to add in, and going back through is when I found this weird problem. So they are still working on the assumption that all I have to fix is a mileage number. Can't even explain this because I didn't know WHAT was going on -- still don't!) Catherine

AND chocolate-chip cookies?

Busted again; I can't get acks right _now_. Their April Fool's Day joke on us?

Please? I'll get Mel's cinnamon roll recipe and bake/ship (post 4/15) for whoever helps me!

They gave out a really spiffy pen when I went to one last fall.

Haven't heard the offer but if I can get MAX for $699, I'm in. There's almost no tech support I can't get from here!

See the other thread next to this one; lots of folks (me included) have been having differing levels of trouble all day.

All day when I try to get ack's, I connect to the EFC but then get stuck at the verify info link. I get "connection to the server is established" and then NOTHING, no matter how long I wait. Is this my issue -- or is it an ATX issue? TIA, Catherine Details: The connection to the server is established. Error: The transmission can't continue due to a server error. Error: Received response 12031: Unknown from the server instead of an XML document.

VERY LOUD raspberry sounds to both of you!!!! Great gag, though.

HELP!!! Client is starting to hound me!