Catherine

@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.

So, we should all take pictures of our desks, as they are, and post them here. Rich started; I'll go second.

Oh, Judy, I am SO sorry to hear your sad news! I'm glad the older woman is going to be OK - but that is so terribly sad about the 39-year-old. We just lost a friend here, about a week ago. Four years younger than I am - died suddenly in his sleep. Apparently there is a family history of "widow-maker" heart attacks in men in their 50's, but this was an absolute shock. Yes, tell EVERYONE you love them. Hug them until they squirm to be let go. As uncertain as this life can be, you then at least have the consolation that they knew they were loved by you, without question. By the way - I love ALL of you, my friends here at the ATX Community. Consider yourselves hugged.

I have had several clients over the years who lived overseas extensively. No, you do NOT "need" to own a home. Most people who live overseas for a protracted period have a mail drop service (Florida has several; it also helps with relinquishing domicile in a high-tax state) that gets US mail, opens, scans, and securely sends it on. Not cheap, but far less than maintaining a house here that you don't live in, and will lose the gain exemption on. One man lives (still!) in the Philippines, and has been there a good ten or fifteen years. Another couple spent three years in Hong Kong. One lady lives mainly in Argentina but teaches in Europe and will bop over there for a semester now and then. All US citizens, NONE have a permanent US address other than the mail drop.

I'd like to thank the Academy --- oh, wait, wrong group. You guys all mean SO MUCH MORE to me than any hollyweird bozo ever could! Thank you! (I got a star, I got a star.... oh I am just tickled pink!)

I do that when I can but I've run into a couple of weird cases where I had to put something other than "various" or I got error messages that prevented efile.

And if it won't take "Various" take a good guess from the name of the fund or stock. For anything "Emerging Markets" Brazil or Thailand is a good guess. For a "Pacific Rim" fund Japan or Korea. Extrapolate from these.

One couple, each with a separate office in the same house, whose businesses started at different times. One person with a single home office, who moves during the year and the office sq ft percentages are different. I'm sure there are other instances as well.

This may be covered in Judy's PM, but you can pull up state acks with a report. Any errors will have a number that you can look up. Also, if you open a return and go to View mode, look at the state version of the 9325 (if there is no specific form, look for "state_EF" in the forms list, with "state" replaced with the two-letter USPS state abbreviation (MA, VA, NM, NY, whatever).

Without a baseball bat!

My guess is high-end phone plans, top-of-the-line cable TV service. Dinners at nice restaurants, buying lunch every day at work. Vacations that involve hotels and airfare. Eats up the money fast.

I think that will work. Attach an explanation pointing them to the "final" box, though.

My dad had a hand-crank one. The thing weighed a ton!

I *knew* the kid looked familiar! I certainly watched Lost In Space (where he was older), but I did not really watch the Twilight Zone. Thank you all!

for this client! I don't recognize the picture you included, but feel like I should. Who is it?