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funny - i totally agree with.

even more selective than 3%. 300 out of 30000? atx customers = 1%. 9 out of 30000 = .03%. nevertheless; i am grateful to be able to be here and receive the benefit of the questions & answers that are generated by this very select board!

AMEN!

"with or without the facts" hints at an argument, even if only rhetorical. Wikepedia was just a suggestion to point you in the direction of facts. So try the other sites: usgs.gov, noaa.gov, climate.org, and epa.gov - same story.

It was funny to see $5000+ Lacerte clients squealing like stuck pigs, and threatening to go to equally expensive CCH ProFx or Ultratax (if I have the products straight). The money involved in TurboCrap, Lacerte, and ProSeries verses ATX was humbling. It looks likes the small fish (me) will always be scrambling to keep up, let alone survive.

How about Henry? "Well I'm just a monkey man. I'm glad you are a monkey, monkey woman too." A good Rolling Stones tune.

joanmcq - You are right about sea level (maybe even 8 inches). My sea level comment was a two cents attempt from memory. I googled 'sea level' and selected Wikipedia. There is lots of stuff about sea level. Also, Alaska and Russia were connected by a landmass during the cold ice age period when the oceans were 300-400 feet lower than today. jainen - Your heart could warm the corners of the universe. :>)

"Just wondering!" Yes, ice that is already floating on water will not increase water level when it melts (in the total scheme of things, a lower percentage). Most of the ice on Greenland and Antarctica is on land and will raise sea levels when it melts (or suddenly collapses).

It is "a natural cycle that man's impact is adding to and exacerbating". As well as I understand things I have read, there has been an approximate 100,000 year ice age cycle for the last 700,000 years (and possibly the last 2 million years to the beginning of the Pleistocene geologic epoch). It is made up of 10,000 years of warming (like now) and 90,000 years of the cold "ice age" period. It's called the astronomical theory of the ice ages. There are 3 major cycles: 1) a 100,000 year cycle - the eccentricity of the earth's orbit around the sun. 2) a 41,000 year cycle - the tilt of the earth from 22 degrees to 25 degrees and back. 3) a 23,000 year cycle - the wobble of the earth's orbit known as the precession of the equinoxes. In the past, the warm periods would peak at a CO2 level of 280-300 parts per million and at an average earth temperature of 60 degrees F. Today the temperature is 60 degrees but the CO2 level is above 300ppm and on its way to 600ppm and more. This is the new situation that man has caused. The higher CO2 levels are predicted to raise the average earth temperature by 5-15 degrees F over the next 50-100 years. Overall, this will probably not be a good thing. Also, I don't think the sea level has gone up 6 inches in the last century. It may be that is the VERY optimistic prediction for the next 50-100 years. I believe there is 20-50+ feet available in the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers. The sea level has been that much higher at times in the past.

fair enough. i was only suggesting that this situation did not appear to me to be on the road to a 'valid .. multi-leg exchange'.

i think it will. you have tried to present the correct position, whether on a 1040x or original return (and esp since you are sending more money).

unlike the lifetime chicken pox antibody, this WORK virus only responds to a remedy that is water soluble. it must be administered every time the virus appears.

unless it is a direct exchange of prop A for prop B, a qual intermediary must broker the third party exchange. otherwise his sale of the first property is a recognized taxable event - regardless of your concern about the 45 or 180 day requirements. i am not sure about your related party question, but as much as i understand this situation, i don't think you are on a 1031 tax free exchange path.

ahh 40 - 'those were the days my friend, i thought they'd never end.' ditto to redux and taxbilly. i usually don't have to worry about sleeping through an alarm anymore. i have a 2hour prostate alarm going off.

you are to the point MontanaEA and LLBWest - tax and software topics. political discussions are tempting, but it is better if they find a different and more appropriate forum. kc does not launch these right leaning RPG's on her yahoo web site. i also request not here either.

the closing price on 8/15/79 was 54.88. isn't the current basis per share $1.1433? (54.88/48 = $1.1433). or the $1.143229 that was originally stated (subject to other rounding).

'begging the question?' - nuh uhh. you're begging the question by defining price fixing as a 'discussion' of prices without acknowledging that it does not effect the prices of a multilayered national tax prep market (not a monopoly or even close to an OLIGOPOLY).

mtlady - i am not yet in vista, but i believe tbilly (call atx support direct) and wbrasch offer good suggestions - esp wbrasch suggestion that vista properties offers an XP mode until vista (business &/or ultimate?) bugs are worked out.

a discussion of rates could be a part of price fixing, but it is certainly not 'the very definition of price fixing'. the major part of price fixing involves a monopoly or oligopoly of a market - something that is not even remotely evident in the national income tax prep business.

i agree - all fed business returns and all state business returns. plus non w2/1099 & 940/941 efiling over 100 that is included in 1040 office (i know you are a reluctant efiler so this may not matter). plus some misc research - krock all state & business quick answer and all state tax expert. plus some acctg sofware - atx trial bal and doc manager (whatever they are). go to atx products for breakdown. hope this helps a little.

i have also wondered about about the name use. someone else suggested XATXERS. regarding 'yesteryear' - i am reminded of the saying : "money talks (not that there is anything wrong with that) and B/S walks (us poor individual tax preparers trying to get by)".

with atx payer manager and rollover of year to year files, i have found efficiencies there. no scan, just click a couple of buttons. of course, new entries require an original entry, but only once.

1) the code v amount from the sale (included in w-2 wages) is the gain of the the selling price over the option price. this is part of the sch d basis. 2) the other part of the basis is in the transaction sheets from the broker or employer like joanmcq says. it is the cost of the options that is deducted from the sale proceeds. gross proceeds - cost (gain + option cost) = 0, with a loss from the broker commission.