Catherine

I got it a couple of years ago through a Drake promotion; $250 a year. I'd love to hear who Margaret's carrier is - while I will gladly pay the insurance I would prefer to pay less, y'know?

If you get money as nominee, you will need to send one or you pay taxes on someone else's money.

I detest Form 1116. It just does not NEED to be as convoluted as it is.

I don't know how people can face themselves in the mirror in the morning after ripping off an old woman like that. Sure, I've filed 706's for a slew of reasons (starting SOL if nothing else, at times). So charging her for some work, fine. But $4,500 for nothing but copies of papers she already had, plus blank tax forms? Sometimes I wish public flogging would come back into vogue. As for your comments, @Lion EA - YES we have to charge more. Plus tell them that we charge for all the questions they are not asking their lawyers - only after telling them we are NOT lawyers, we don't play lawyers on television, and we don't give legal advice. There is frequently a lot of money (and tax) issues caught in legal issues. I talk to clients about the tax and finance portion and send 'me back to their pricey lawyers for the legal part.

AMEN!!! As the Queen of Snarky Comments, I would be in BIG trouble if kidding was not allowed.

This may depend on state law. Here in MA, they are really strict about what constitutes child support versus alimony, and it has to be spelled out in the decree. The state will consider payments as child support if they can be tied in any way to child milestones, even if it is called alimony. So decrees here tend to be *very* specific.

It can also be a specified number of years, so long as it is NOT linked to milestones of children (then it becomes child support). I have seen alimony for specific numbers of years. I have also seen non-QDRO pension splits when the pension payer (state government, in the case I recall) does not allow re-apportioning (or naming) of benefits to an ex-spouse (and yes, then the payments end with the recipient's death, regardless of the other spouse's status). As soon as I read "military" I made the same assumption. That might not have been correct.

Will do, Max!

Love it, Gail!

My assistant and I made one for him with a literature sorter. When he wanted to stand, he put the keyboard to the side, picked up one monitor, put both on the box. Tilt the other monitor (which was bigger, too) up. Ba-doom-cha, done. Good cheap way to see if you like it, at least. Like this one: Fellowes literature sorter from Staples

If you've got a tax case, I think you could proceed with that. Has he given a 1099-R to the ex for the half-pension amount? Or paid the tax himself and given her half the proceeds (net of tax, one would hope)? If he is required to pay it to her, there is a good case for him sending her a 1099-R, and subtracting that payment from his income (as a 1099-R correction, or as alimony). Online places such as efilemyforms let you file a 1099-R online for a couple of bucks.

Last man who tried to get funny with me was some years ago at a contra dance. The father of one of my older daughter's best friends, too (the sleazebucket). I managed to avoid him by "accidentally" stumbling, and elbowed him in the gut at the same time. I apologized for the elbow with a BIG smile. Funny how he never tried again.

If you ship, I'll buy!

Thanks; I'll see what I can pull together to tell her.

@NECPA in NEBRASKA you can put LED's in regular light fixtures, too. They even make dimmer-compatible LED's these days.

Hey girls - this summer I can teach you some easy joint locking techniques if you'd like. NON-VOTING POST

Oh you poor woman; I can't grasp how horrible that time must have been for you. Yes, we need to watch priorities. If you come to the summer bash at Rita B's, you'll get lots of hugs!

EVERYTHING in my office is on hard lines. No wireless anything.

Does anyone have ANY idea of how to set this up? One of my clients had an OIC accepted. The client wants to set up automatic monthly payments to the IRS for the OIC balance due, in accordance with the monthly payment agreed upon. The OIC office told us we could set that up online. HOWEVER - bless me if I can find ANY information on how to do that. I called the OIC office back, and all they could tell me was "yes, you can do that, no we don't know how." Direct Pay (which does not have a way to set up repeat payments) does not even have and offer in compromise as a payment type. An installment agreement includes a fee to set up - which seems ridiculous for someone who has just had an offer accepted. Searching the IRS site gives me nothing usable. Any guidance here? Thanks!

Nah; cell phone cameras mainly don't have flashes, that's all. See all the windows behind desks? They ratchet down the f-stop to make the bright parts non-glarey.

overall, not picture or number. I had so many items uploaded over the years that I was near my total limit. I just deleted a slew of photos from my younger daughter's college graduation almost three years ago. I have all those and don't need to store them here too.

Can you all see the green post-it on the right under my left monitor? Reminders - all checked off - to make travel arrangements to Rita B's in June! And a W-2 under it, stuffed halfway under the monitor.

Go to your name in the upper right corner and get the drop-down menu. Choose "my attachments" and delete.

I had to re-size mine TWICE to get it under the limit. I'll have to go delete some older stuff (in my copious free time). Judy, I saw a little woof under your desk! Abby, I am jealous of your THREE monitors - and very amused to see my desk picture on your right-most monitor. My office is a disaster and a traffic hazard. When I closed my Waltham office, some of the stuff that wasn't going to Arlington came back here. That is mostly - but not completely - dealt with. Then my church got 36 hours to clear out our office (lost the space, very suddenly) and ALL of that is in boxes and bags all over the floor. My husband covered my conference table, and it gets worse from there. I'm back to talking to people at my kitchen table...

My out of country clients do NOT have state returns. If your clients use a FL mail drop, that becomes their "home" for domicile purposes. No income tax in FL, but there must be something that another state will accept. There are lots of people who move outside the country for years on end or permanently; there has GOT to be a way to prove they are NOT residents of their old state. Yes, NY (and MA) will fuss and moan - but even there, there must be a way to prove to them.