Catherine

I just LOVE this way of putting it!

Lynn has a great idea - there may be a state standard, so check it out and charge that amount!

Good luck, Edsel! We just prepared returns going back to 2013 for someone; fortunately beyond the limit for EIC.

The Massachusetts return is now FOUR pages that are each 2/3 blank. Only the middle third has ANY information other than name. It is a royal PITA. So don't hold your breath.

I'm with you, @rfassett - that's what I was trying to say. It's just a more-summarized summary. Overdue, to my mind. The 1040 has been masquerading as a standalone, and unless your return is dead-simple (one W-2, no interest, dividends, gains, or doggone near anything else), it's not, and hasn't been that for decades.

The one I saw had income information below the signature section. It's like they put all the demographic info and signatures in one spot, and then all financial details below.

It basically turns the 1040 into even more of a summary page. Everything pertinent is on worksheets and subordinate forms and schedules. Meh.

I set all my Drake printers to pdf, and still use Windows 7, but I will certainly check all my settings. Thanks!

Thank you, thank you, thank you Rita for hosting! It was SO wonderful to meet everyone and I had a blast. I do have at least one picture with Edsel once I get it off my camera. More to say, but of course I came back to about three crises... gotta deal, then I can gush about how marvelous it was. Those who missed it, missed a real treat. We need to do this again, for sure.

I much prefer a consumption tax; "The Fair Tax" book by Lindzen & Bootrz makes a great case. No tax on income at all; one embedded tax on sales of new items (clothing, houses, cars) and not on subsequent sales. Monthly "prebate" for lower income people. Done. It also gets all the "grey market" people. No, no one is going to charge the tax on drugs or hookers - but when the dealers buy gold jewelry and the pimps buy fancy cars, they pay their share of tax on those purchases (which don't get caught on an income tax form).

Thanks, Lion! I looked all over on the NY site (plus some goggle (sic) searches). Never found that. I'll bookmark it for any/all NY clients.

He is really going to be missed. I hope they can control the pain for him. They can't for everyone.

NY State. Not available. Direct debit only, and that only with e-file. We could not e-file her because as part of their "security" to e-file you need a document number from NYS on some card or other. She lost it. It would take a long time to replace, while interest piled up.

Of course not! That fat is THEM and their cushy benefits. So what else would they do but threaten the items that get people riled up to stop the cuts? It's all self-serving. D, I, R - doesn't matter.

One millennial owed tax. Told her to send a check with payment voucher; her response was "I'm a millennial; I don't have checks. Now what do I do?" LOL. She got a bank check, because she didn't want to pay the credit card fee. And she's going to get checks.

I am just making my list to pack and looking at the (ridiculously long) list of chores I need to finish before I can leave. REALLY looking forward to seeing everyone, and hoping this northern girl (with the temporary high thyroid that makes me extra hot all the time) won't melt in the Tennessee heat! Here's a picture of Doug and me that Gwen took last year. But Doug can't come; it will just be me.

Britain's NHS is the largest non-military organization in the world, in terms of employees. And if you want real health care, you have to leave the country...

I charge double what the bank charges. Any client gets one strike. Yes, occasionally we get someone who does not make good, and we eat the fee. Way cheaper than chasing them in the long run. I had one deadbeat call me years later, looking for papers relating to her daughter's adoption (she knew we scanned everything). She paid up - with profuse apologies - I went digging and found her docs, she was thrilled.

To @NECPA in NEBRASKA please take care! I saw Adam Savage of Mythbusters fall from a treadmill, utterly drunk (for a myth) and he was so gone he just bounced with nothing but bruises - but BOY did he bounce hard. If you need money for your doctor, we'll take up a collection for you! If you're sure of Aleve and ice, go for it. I certainly self-treat a ton of things most folks go running to the doctor for. That has included huge bruises, serious sprains, nasty deep splinters, and two (at different times) broken toes. Yeah, people (if you tell them) look at you like you're nuts - but YOU know how you feel. Look up the signs of punctured lung (bad break for a rib can do that) and as long as you don't see those, ice and Aleve are your very good friends. Yes, that's all they will do for you; they don't even wrap them these days. @Edsel, I certainly hope you can talk your wife into coming along!

I will be there! Flying in to Nashville a couple of days early to go to another meeting in Cleveland TN, driving from there on Saturday. I can pick up *anything* you might need on that drive if you tell me what. I'm not going to pack plastic tableware in my one bag, so I'll buy as needed. What can I bring? Chips and dips? Paper plates? Case of soda?

I was going to, but get a message that you cannot receive messages. If that's a setting you set, you'll have to change it. Else it's a glitch for Eric to look into.

Yup. Most decidedly inconvenient. But it would keep data safe. In extremis, the e-files could be shuffle-netted on one-use CD's.

A non-networked computer that interfaces with the internet for email, research, etc. Networked computers with NO connection to the internet for data handling and tax prep. The internet computer for transmitting e-files shuffle-netted over to it. Grrr.

Scott Bonadker, of Tax Talk, Tax Pro Exchange, and taxprofessionals groups, died on May 9th after a battle with cancer. Obit is here: Scott Bonacker obituary

I checked today. Our big workhorse is an HP 4015.