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Way to go JB, have fun!!

Amen to that!!! He's been a disaster for this state. We got lucky with the compliance bill, originally there was much more they weren't going to comply with.

Same here - I've filed late, and had the same scenario with filing two years at once, and not a peep from our friends. I'd guess 1120-Hs are pretty well at the bottom of their priority list.

Those bunny eyes are a little creepy, but your grandson is a doll!!!!

:bday: Hope it was a wonderful day!!

Happy Birthday indeed!!! And thanks to Eric for being so great to us all. :bday:

Good one indeed, I got a much-needed chuckle from it!

It all seems to be down again now. No efile, no website. Sigh.

Got a new client today because when she called HRB to make her usual appt, she told them she bought her first house last year, and asked about the tax credit. They had no idea what she was talking about. I kept waiting for the punch line, sure that they must have explained it was actually a loan, not a credit. But no, they knew nothing about the provision at all. Gotta love those HRBs!!

Cruel, cruel you two!! Now that we've all recovered from our heart attacks though, it was funny!! Maybe you should go over to their site and try this.

We have a strict Gift Law for the pols in our state - no more than $10 per year from any one person. Sheesh, you can barely even bake them anything for $10, much less buy something!! And forget taking them out to eat - even the ones that are friends or family don't like to have us pay, since they always have to worry about appearences. PITA. None the less, I wouldn't question wedding gifts, since the Gift Law has no bearing on tax law. And the fact that the gift came from an employee wouldn't matter under any tax law I can think of. Now if it came from an employer, and was extravagant, that might be a different case.

Yay JB!!! Have a very Happy Birthday!! :spaz:

Happy Birthday!!

Thank you!! That seems to have done the trick; it now shows the full carry-over without my having to force things. Now, if only I could efile the dang thing. Why is it always the returns with 20 pages that you have to mail in! :rolleyes:

And you are correct about the MN forms also. Be sure you MN-W too, if the TP has W2 income in MN.

Anyone? I sure could use another set of eyes on this.

I was going around in circles yesterday with this return, with the software and I coming up with different results each time. If anyone who deals with these could check me, I'd be grateful. TP has $3500 of passive-activity business credits - ethanol and low-income housing, but almost no taxable income this year. $200 of credits are allowed, but not actually used, because education credits take first priority and use up all the tax. So bottom line of Form 3800 is zero (which sadly makes it unable to e-file, sigh!). But how much is carried forward to next year - $200 or $3500? I'm saying the full $3500, the software is going back and forth between zero and $200. I hate this guy's return! Usually he has enough passive income to make it all allowable, this was an odd year. But the whole back and forth between forms 8582, 8582CR, 8586, 6478 and 3800 drives me nuts!

Foster children follow the same exact rules as other children, so from what you've said, if they still supported him more than 50% then he's still their dependent.

:bday: Hope your day is great!

Anyone else having problems with this? I had a Hennepin County homeowner get rejected today also, with an error message that confuses two different lines and is wrong anyway: "On form M1PR, Line 22 [M1PR.0820] must equal the sum of Line 2 [PROPST.0190] on form PROPST. If there is no Line 2, use Line 6 [PROPST.0200] on form PROPST." First, that would be Line 5, not Line 6. Second, that's only true if the home is purely residential. If there's a HO, there's another Schedule that has to feed into Line 22. This is the only problem I've had so far this year, so I should feel lucky I suppose. But I hate having to leave a bunch of files open for this piddly little return!

My niece came over yesterday to have me do her taxes and teach her how to do a 1040. I was having the worst day, but she cheered me up just being her normal sweet and funny self! And I too love keeping pics of my clients' kids, and seeing how they've grown over the years. This year, for the first time, I had two of them coming in on their own. So yeah, it's these little things that remind me why I love this business!

Can we not e-file any of these until after the 15th, even if it's for a renter? I had one get rejected, but with no rejection error. This is ringing a bell, I'm sure it happened last year too, but I don't recall the anwer. The form is the latest update. Anyone else running into this?

Thanks folks!! Woke up to a very Spring-like day here, so with the windows open and the sun shiny, it certainly feels like a special day!

I had a client get a phone call several weeks ago about her qualifying for a $5000 small business "grant." And why did she qualify for this largesse by the federal gov't - because she paid her bills on time. She doesn't even have a business!! Oh, but she pays her bills at home, right, so she still qualifies. Same thing as you're talking about, needed her bank info. Sheesh. Luckily, she was smart enough to know right off it was a scam - kept the guy on the phone for half an hour though, just to jerk him around. But I hate hearing these stories, wondering how many people get scammed with this crap.

I usually charge $50 per extra state, to cover extra time and the PPR fees. But I'm in an urban area, so maybe you'd want to go less. I wouldn't tag on too much more for the extra W2s, going by your scale maybe another $10. But the 2106, if he won't organize it himself, I'd go hourly - and my tax season hourly rate is close to double what I charge my accounting clients. I use this method for folks that have tons of stock trades too. Once you decide, don't let talk you down! I've made that mistake a couple times, and I think they value us less afterwards.