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PEMDAS This stands for Parenthesis (are none), Exponents (are none), Multiplication (yes), Division (none), Addition, and Subtraction (yes)

KC, no problem I totally understand your reasonings and apologies to you, that is the last thing I would like to do "bring hurt" after what you have gone through. Sincerely, Marco

"I agree with you Tom.. I know that there are bad preparers out there that need to be controlled but this is exactly what I expected would be the result of giving the IRS total control over who can prepare returns. It would have made so much more sense for them to just crack down on the bad actors, but they could not resist an excuse to take control of ALL preparers. Then, because that is a huge number of people, they use automated systems to administer the rules. So you get stupid situations such as yours, where the 'automated' system is mis-programmed, but there is no recourse except to live with it. " "OK, here is my crazy idea. I am actually thinking about approaching my congressman with this idea, but I will pass it to you guys to rip apart first. The OPR should become an independent body within the department of Treasury (modeled after the Taxpayer Advocate system) in which there is an independent body who sets the rules for practice before the IRS in all matters of taxation. The Secretary would not have authority over this body. The OPR would set compentency, ethical and licensing requirements for BOTH practictioners and IRS employees (auditors and revenue officers). It would resolve practice disputes between the IRS and the preparer community. It would handle discipline of BOTH practitioners and IRS employees. Why do we need this? Because the Secretary has too much authority over the practitioner community. In our adversarial relationship with the government, it makes no sense to allow one side to be able to force the other out of business with administrative authority with no due process to an independent arbitrator. Imagine if the district attorney Lawyers in this country could have the authority over the Defence attorneys to license and administer the rules of their practice? But that is what the Secretary has over us. He can pull our PTIN with any reason (see my post above re: my wife's PTIN renewal). There is a mechanism where the auditors can complain about bad practitioners, but not one for practioners to complain about bad IRS employees. So, what do you think. Would you prefer an independent body in Treasury that controlls the practice on both sides, or the system we have now? Fire away - I am a big boy, I can take it. Tom Hollister, CA " Have you seen this post? How many people have been sanction from the OPR, you will be surprised

How do I contact the admin?

Why was it removed? Or where is it?

Using Order of Operation gives you 20, I also seen this on facebook, and I will say a high number of people have responded with 320

LOL I am actually inside my doctor office waiting to see her for my prescription, in all honestly this year has been a stressful for me and now I see my doctor more often now .

Ahh chucks, the government can even make more money making the dancers more accountable, force them to claim 100% of tips and pay taxes, I bet many of them won't be able to afford going to college, having a nice condo, driving a fancy car after paying taxes. But on another note, medical researchers have found out getting a lap dance reduces stress :)

Received an email from the IRS reminding me about renewing my PTIN, there is a question to see if you have met the 15hr of CPE, prorated for anyone passing the RTRP exam after 01/31/12, and towards the end of the application you get message refering to Cir. 230 and letting you know if need hours still. Anyone else renewed?

Closed without sanction and lack of jurisdiction

Does anyone here remember something called AOL?

Yes, but just imagine you are using Lotus123 from back in the day, someone here on the forum should give it a try and let other know how it works. My experience with Calc was terrible, I couldn't perform a sum, sort, add a decimal point and I am talking about simple stuff, so the next time I visited my client I took my laptop and used excel. Client eventually bought office.

Say good bye to the easiness of using excel, you are going to find it very difficult to sum up totals, create columns, etc.... almost made me want to cry when I couldn't perform those simple tasks.

Tom, you might of pickup the last copies, checked out the website today and it only shows the download version.

PM on it's way

Not what I am recommending to you, I will send you PM with more details.

Hello Tom, do you have any children in college or know someone who does? Have them check for you, they have the best deals. Marco

Same office, but not exactly, I posted the attachment in a new topic.

From the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), these are the number of disciplined attorneys, CPAs, EAs, etc..... for calendar year 2011. The numbers are very low for the amount of preparers out there. See attachment, page 4 slide #1. MAS<p class="ipsLikeBar right clearfix" id="rep_post_68293"> OPR 2011 Discipline Results.pdf

Attachment failed, is there a way to upload it again? MAS

Disregard this thread, attachment failed. MAS

They are probably working on their tax return, geesh I haven't started on mine yet :(

Maybe it's the same email I received, I only read the first lines stating that I had sent XXX number of efile for 2011. But I don't think it's the IRS disclosing this information, it's probably ATX or the company that transmits the returns electronically, nothing ilegal about that, companys always sell email addresses or data.

Just wanted to share these great articles on foreclosure/short-sale reporting, worth reading. http://www.fogelcpa.com/Pages/TaxArticles.aspx MAS

Just wonder, what do you charge your clients if a check is returned? $15, $25 $50?