Catherine

Yes, and do you remember the animatronics show "Dinosaurs" from - I forget when, but a long time ago; early 90's-ish. All the dinosaurs were named after oil companies. Earl Sinclair, his mother in law Ethyl Phillips, boss Mr B. P. Richfield, buddy Roy Hess. It was a hoot!

Next to your triceratops?

Depends on the level of authentication protocol. $1.50 and $2.50, depending. Per person signing - so couples will be double.

We have also advised our clients to check their withheld tax for 2018.

I'd make a separate W-4 for people who get large but irregular bonuses or commissions. We've ALL seen clients usually in a 20% bracket have a huge bonus (that bracket-bumps them) that gets 20% withheld. Then they get slammed in April. I'd like folks to have the opportunity to increase % tax withheld on those big bonuses to 35% or 40%.

I use CPAperless' product "Signature Flow" that works very efficiently. The big plus with them is that it's a per-signature charge, rather than a monthly fee. For the dozen or two e-signatures I do a year, paying a stiff monthly fee would be stupid. I have my business card on file, they charge me monthly for that month's signatures.

Thank you, @Edsel, for your fabulous exposition on timber issues!

While what @Abby Normal says is very true, give them the list of all the additional information they have to provide to support all the transactions, and they might agree to make it cleaner. As much as they like "putting one over" they detest inconveniencing themselves more.

Since it's 2018, they still have time to exchange cash for this, and fix the situation. Pay for the asset. Get paid in return for the "barter" work. All the paperwork is right. Reporting is straightforward. All the "how did you decide on the value of the barter work?" questions are made moot.

I'm with FDNY; my legis-vermin are all on the wrong side for getting anything useful out of the IRS. But I'll write to them anyway. FYI, everyone, the various offices use a very sophisticated method for figuring how people feel about matters: they *count*. So, if you call, email, fax, and write, your position gets four slots. Do it!

In anything resembling this possibility, I always try to be elsewhere when the finger is pointed! As in, at least a full county away. If I don't CMA (my) at all times, I can't help anyone. And I hate jumpsuits. Orange is OK, but not jumpsuits. Blech.

Hey, why not?! What two concepts occur (and are used mathematically) everywhere in science and engineering, but do not exist in our universe? True randomness. Infinity.

@JohnH's sig line, "In theory, practice and theory are identical. In practice, they are not," leads to this response: I want to live in theory - EVERYTHING works in theory!

Balloon was my thought, too.

You could have just ended the sentence here, and it would apply to *many* situations!

Great comments, all - but the electron's charge is negative... sorry, my inner nerd had to point it out.

My very best wishes that EVERYONE here has a wonderful Fourth of July with friends, family, burgers, sparklers, and more. Be safe and enjoy! "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the Governed..." This country remains the ONLY ONE, EVER founded in the entirety of the world's history, on the principles that sovereign power resides in the people, and that the purpose of government is to protect those rights given to us - not by a government document (which could be overturned by another document), but by God Himself (Who can never be overturned). How unutterably privileged we are to have been born here and/or to have made this country our home. Read the entirety of the Declaration out loud with your family some time tomorrow. The signers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. We can take ten minutes to read the bold statement of treason (going against the King) and heresy (Georgie Porgie was also head of the official Church of England). Not even our burgers will be on the line. National Archives transcript Discussion of the preamble

At least electrons are cheap (and I've heard tell they're easy, too - but I wouldn't know about that - some of you guys might be able to chime in, though).

business as usual...

Thanks Joe/Abby! I *have* to dig out my camera and get my pictures uploaded here.

My hairdresser will certainly be kept - she's my daughter. Plus she works for a place that employs her, so she gets a W-2 with tips listed. Very few pay cash tips in her shop, and she tracks those.

Your link did not come through; can you please re-post? Thanks!

Get one with the EIN then and make sure the topic line says payroll taxes and a second line says Civil Penalty. Else you could find yourself able to talk about tax issues but not about penalties. They tend to be super-fussy about those trust fund tax issues.

One of the reasons we always highlight the "This is your total tax" line rather than the refund (or balance due) line. We point it out as "this is what they get to keep" because that's the important part. We call refunds "this is the amount you loaned the feds last year" and balance due is "this is what's left to pay" - always focusing on total tax. We almost never have anyone complain about the refund amount. (The few that do are clueless and we had one this year complain about the "smaller refund" that was several thousand HIGHER!)

Isn't that the standard joke? The two-line tax return: What did you make last year? Send it in!