Catherine

I switched to Drake - enough of us did that we have our own mini-forum that you can see from the home page. Customer service is astounding, but you won't need it much once you get used to how Drake arranges input. They'll give you current-year software for free, now that we're past 4/17, and any/all prior years for free as well. AND they will support those years.

In early February of 2013 I called them with a big problem, during the 2012 debacle. They could not figure it out and promised a call back with an answer within 48 hours. I am still waiting for have not received that call.

Please do not conflate it with Veteran's Day; that holiday in November is for the living. Memorial Day is for those who have died. Friday, May 25, 2018 To: Friends & Supporters From: Gary Bauer Patriot Graves Monday marks Memorial Day, a national observance first known as Decoration Day. The first Memorial Day was observed on May 30, 1868, on the orders of General John Logan, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Initially meant as a time to remember those who fell during the bloody battles of our brutal Civil War, the holiday's significance has been extended to honor all those who paid the ultimate price for our nation. As they have done every year since 1948, soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment placed flags at more than 280,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They will remain at Arlington National Cemetery throughout the holiday weekend, making sure that the flags remain upright. Unfortunately, over time Memorial Day weekend has become more of an occasion for relaxation than for reflection about our patriots' graves and the values for which they gave "the last full measure of devotion." This weekend I encourage you to do both -- relax and reflect. Have that picnic, hug your kids and have some fun at the beach. But let's also remind ourselves about what happened at Concord Bridge, on the fields of Antietam and the beaches of Normandy, and that it still requires vigilance and courage to preserve liberty today. Explain to your children the price that was paid to stop the evil of fascism and the cancer of Soviet communism. Tell them why there was a Berlin Wall, what happened at Okinawa, at Ground Zero and over the fields of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Explain to them why we still fight in Afghanistan, and against the existential threat to Western Civilization posed by radical Islamic supremacism. Take a moment this weekend to teach our children and grandchildren to love the things we love, and to honor the things we honor. Finally, let's remind ourselves that liberty is a gift from God and that each generation has paid in flesh and blood to preserve it. As General George Patton said: "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Better than a letter saying "huh? where's the 1120? why are you sending this 1120-S?"

She has to become a British subject to keep her title of Duchess. The Queen can give it ahead of time, but once she hits the 5-year mark for residence, they'll likely push her on it.

Does this make FDNY our resident statesman?

Not needed! Sorry you won't be able to make it this summer.

What Abby said. Whatever you get, get the fastest. Get more memory (RAM) than you think you need. Get bigger drives than you think you need - preferably SSD.

One of my husband's friends says what we really need is not caller ID, but call IQ. To see if it's worth bothering to answer. Of course, I got not one, not two, but three "Windows Technical Support" calls yesterday. Kept two of them going for a bit by playing stupid. It was funny.

I grew up with an unusual Italian name and was thrilled to bits to change it as soon as I could (after my dad died, too). I knew which lists where ALL my junk mail was purchased from, by the way the name was mis-spelled. They got real creative at times. Now with White, the only weird one was when someone thought it was Hoyt. Now I say "like the color" and yes don't go all physics-technical on me, people call it a color!

I only use bonus depreciation if there is an overwhelming reason for it - in other words, almost never. Plus MA doesn't allow it, so right there you end up with two schedules to trace in perpetuity. They could not even spell horse?! Really?! And could not even be consistent in their mis-spelling? I'd be happy to drive WAY more than 18 miles to find someone competent. But that's just me. I still drive 45 miles each way to the dentist after finding a real good one when I lived in Worcester.

If you decide to do this, I would binder-clip the whole kit and caboodle along with an introductory letter in LARGE font. As in, barely small enough to fit on one page. Then they might read it first.

Common Sense isn't very.

Yeah, but *thinking* about doing it results in 90% of the satisfaction with NO repercussions. Except coming up with an excuse for the secret little smile!

If he passed, it's HIS estate. She might be adminstrator/rep/executor/whatever-they-call-it. Filing an extension should cost NOTHING - unless maybe if she's getting a lawyer involved? Is she competent to be the intermediary here? There are SO many problems with your question that all my alarm bells are going off.

@BulldogTom that's a great idea going forward if it works. Depends on whether his Sch C business has a dba name. If invoices are made out to "Joe's Goodies" instead of "Joe Smith" it's gonna end up on Sch C no matter how he pays.

Tell 'em you have a new keyboard and the spacing is a little different - it's astounding how tentative that can make you! (As I know from experience.)

I'd put it on Sch C so that the records match what is reported on his returns. You don't *have* to sell product for profit, after all. That way if he's ever audited, you won't be trying to explain to the IRS why these purchases for the business and the sales of same are not being reported.

Zero stars is still generous. LOL.

I don't quite remember, but it wasn't very long. Facile came first; comfort followed (when I started automatically going to the right screen, instead of having to think which it was).

Send it with the return - on TOP. Or I can give you a MassDOR mailing address.

You might also look at "Structural Integration" (that used to be called Rolfing). They work to free up stuck areas in the fascia between layers of muscle. The lady I went to several years ago was a Godsend; I had knots in my back that had been there since I was twelve that she got rid of. I go back every now and then for a tune-up and afterwards am always amazed at how much more freely I can move, and how places that I did not even realized ached had stopped. The lady I see also told me that the place that hurts is almost never the source of the problem. I went for a tune up some months ago with my right shoulder bugging me - problem was my left hip wasn't moving freely, and it twisted me so that my shoulder was taking the brunt of it. Freed up my hip, and my shoulder pain disappeared.

Congratulations and welcome to the club! Drake tends to try to group like items together, so that might be why instead of putting depreciation directly on C or E, instead they hot-link from those pages to the 4562 input screen. It annoyed me as well, at first (I switched during the 2012 debacle) but then I had to trace some depreciation between a couple of rental properties (I forget why) and it was SO much easier having them all together. As for the input screen entry - every year the input screens become more and more like the forms we get from our clients. And remember that in any input field you can make a break-out list by hitting CTRL-W in the filed and it will give you a worksheet list. Great for charity, or tracing property tax payments from HUD-1's, or anywhere you want more detail. While I was not crazy about having to "View" the return every time I wanted to check something, once I realized that Drake would calculate and go to view significantly faster than ATX (back in 2012, at least) would swap screens, I was appeased. A year or three back they added the look-back from View mode to see where it's drawing info, if something doesn't look right. Better than the jump-to-bunny that used to take me in circles sometimes! Always check how depreciation figures converted - no matter what software or what direction, those are always the weak point.

Make sure you check the box for copies of notices. But also be aware that they only get THAT right about half the time. They do keep a central database. I have no idea how current it is, or how easy it is for agents to access it.

You realize your chance of getting any money is next to nil. What you want is public vindication for you, and public humiliation for her. GO for it. Small claims court fee is low - worth it to exorcise the anger. And learn a lesson - retainer for ANY nonstandard work, and open the check envelope BEFORE they leave!