Lion EA

The next time someone questions my fee (or today someone asked me how far I would push in filing a return) I'm going to show them the picture of me getting on the plane and getting off the plane and tell them not to mess with me! My kids now think I'm badass, so it was worth it.

I've had good luck with the following for late filed partnerships and partnerships that didn't file extensions and even an S-corp once: ABC, LLC, 06-1111111, filed Form 7004 Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File on 3 April 2009. Therefore, its Form 1065 was timely filed 15 September 2009. Even if you did not record its Extension prior to the original due date, ABC qualifies for an exception to the penalty you charged under IRC Section 6698(a)(1), because all two (2) partners, X, 222-22-2222, and Y, 333-33-3333, reported all their shares of income and deductions timely on their joint 2008 income tax return Form 1040. Therefore, the partnership meets the criteria specified in Rev. Proc. 84-35, which says in part: “A domestic partnership composed of 10 or fewer partners and coming within the exception outlined in section 6231(a)(1)(B ) of the Code will be considered to have met the reasonable cause test and will not be subject to the penalty imposed by section 6698 for the failure to file a complete or timely partnership return, provided that the partnership, or any of the partners, establishes, if so required by the Internal Revenue Service, that all partners have fully reported their shares of the income, deductions, and credits of the partnership on their timely filed income tax returns.” We trust that you will remove the penalty due to reasonable cause for small companies.

The secret is the instructor does all the heavy lifting and I was just along for the ride! I could see from Springfield, MA, to Long Island Sound. We flew over to greet my daughter in the air. Didn't see my son until we landed. If you jump, wear a stocking cap or ear plugs as the wind is whistling by at 115 miles/hour and cold at two miles up. And, I'm scared of heights too after being on a collapsing balcony, but I still love roller coasters. Skydiving was less scary than a roller coaster. I like the idea of playing the video for my clients.

Yep, we were all smiling, before, during, and after! And, Margaret, you've dived through the depths so diving from two miles up should round out your exploration....

This is probably as good a place as any to let you all laugh at this old lady skydiving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKxp9APHBVw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

When my retired husband is sleeping in, it's really, really, hard for me to get up. Similarly, when he goes to bed before me, it's hard to keep working. When he's away, I can keep any hours with no difficulty. So, the empty bed in your picture just makes me think of changing sheets or doing laundry. But, a bed with a sleeping person or even a pet makes me want to nap!

When couples are divorcing, I explain MFJ vs MFS. But, there are many reasons for filing MFS that have nothing to do with taxes, such as keeping her finances separate or filing before the soon-to-be-ex is ready or not being held jointly liable when you aren't together anymore to know/understand the other's finances. It's her decision after you inform her. Or his, is that's the client you keep. And, no, you cannot tell her or him "by how much" unless they both engage you to contrast MFJ vs. MFS for them. I prefer to keep only one of a divorcing couple if they decide not to file MFJ.

I also don't like crowds and don't shop on Black Friday. And, I won't shop on Thanksgiving either. I think we all need a few holidays, including those that are nearly universal so families can get together. Well, as least as far as my family's universe extends! My son and daughter-in-law work at an Inn open 365 days, so she'll be on her feet all next week cooking dozens of turkeys. We don't go near the Inn when they're busy. We'll drive up Christmas day to eat with them when the restaurant closes for the evening and open presents under the Inn's tree when they can put their feet up. We stay a few days between the holidays while the Inn is mostly empty and leave before they prepare for New Year's Eve. My stepdaughter is in a serious relationship now so has "his" family and her mother's family and her mother's live-in boyfriend's family and her father's/my family to schedule. I told her not to let visiting us add any stress to her holidays and that we are happy to see them whenever it fits their schedules. She and her boyfriend will come to church with us on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and we'll take them out to lunch, No shopping!

Maybe your town social worker knows of seniors needing part-time work or single moms who could work during school hours.

I have spread the work among my MA contacts and will let you know if any leads develop. Good luck.

If a scanner purchase is in your future, Acrobat is bundled with Fujitsu and probably other brands. 10 and 11 are very similar (per a course I took last week) and, as Catherine says, 10 is available much cheaper now that 11 is out.

I think with the full Adobe you can remove pages. My husband loves cutepdf.

You might contact the NY/CT-ATP to see if you can post on their bulletin board. http://nyctatp.org/

While on hold anyway, continue applying online also!

Get your EA. But, it's a little like a money-back guarantee in reverse. If you don't know if you'll have any NY returns, do NOT register. Then, if you get a NY return, you register then and no penalty if within 90 days. Or, get your EA !!

You can also get specialized postcards from places like Tenenz and M&C: http://mostad.com/ Or, your local Staples will print up anything for you. If you've been in business very long, you probably get lots of specialty catalogs in the mail and emails with specials.

Yes, we have quite an elaborate water-treatment plant in our basement, iron filter, softening with potassium salts, three or more modules. Whenever our toilets start turning orange or we smell sulphur while showering, we change the filter. Used to be every three months, but new -- more expensive -- filters last longer now. But, adding bleach to a load of laundry and forgetting to add lots of Calgon means hubby's tightie whities are orangies instead !! After 23 years, the wash tub is orange up to the water level. The set tub is always orange, but I soak it once in awhile with rust remover. So, I've been limiting bleach loads. I'm hoping the Sanitary cycle will help with sanitizing and de-allergizing so I won't need bleach as often.

Yes, the spin speeds on just about every washer far exceeds my 23-year-old dead washer. I always ran Spin twice to get out more water before putting clothes in my dryer. Now I hope to not do that anymore. And, the capacity is larger, especially with no center agitator, even in top-loaders. Our salesman said he runs a weekly white load with bleach and dries the gasket each load and hasn't had any smells from his front-loader. I have lots of iron in my well water, so try not to use bleach or else everything (clothes, washer, set tub where it drains out to the septic tank) turns orange; and our septic guy doesn't like us bleaching the flora and fauna in our septic tank. I did buy a stand for the dryer but don't need one for the top-loading washer. LG called today to confirm our order and delivery, so I'm getting excited (and our dirty clothes are piling up!). I did manage to dry the wet clothes with several cycles of my dryer, so we have clean light-colored clothes to wear.

Thank you for all your comments. (Hubby also polled his church choir.) Comments and Consumer Reports and a patient salesman at Home Depot and hubby who had researched for longer than me led to our decisions. We went with an LG top loading washer with a very large capacity stainless drum and an LG gas dryer on a platform so my old back can bend less. We bought the cheapest color (white) and not a matched set as they are in an unfinished basement. I got my priority list of one of the best ratings on the repair/problems list, bleach dispenser, dryer platform, and some nice extras such as a platform for drying sneakers (I had that years ago on my first GE dryer) and a light in the drum so I can find that elusive sock. Home Depot will deliver by Friday and does free delivery, installation/set-up, and haul away of old appliances. Actually, we are coordinating the dryer installation with the propane tank installation for our new generator this week as the gas company needs to convert the gas dryer to propane (different nozzle) and make the actual connection. Thank you again for all your help.

So, I return from a business trip with a suitcase full of dirty laundry and a hamper full at home, too, to find my washing machine (which was diagnosed as terminal in July and given a two-month life -- yes, we'd been shopping, but it was still just a small leak !!) to have advanced to a large leak and the agitator no longer rotating. Consumer Reports rates the front-loading washers higher than any ot the top loaders. But they say you have to leave the door open (can't run continuous loads!) and have to wash down the drum, door, and gasket and have to run a bleach load without clothes followed by a water load without clothes (doesn't that change the efficiency rating for power and water usage?!) to keep the smell away. And, I'm old and would have to bend down for both the washer and dryer. I'm leary of Sansung that CR likes as it has only a three-year history. (I'm only on my second washer/dryer: GE for more than 15 years and Maytag for 23 years.) I love having a bleach dispenser, and many of the top-rated washers of either type don't have that. (Maytag does, but isn't rated as high as a few other models.) I'm sitting here with a sopping wet light load and have a dark load, sheets, towels/rugs, and a white/bleach load to go. Laundry mat? Home Depot for whatever they can install fast? What's your experience?

Prayers for your wife and for her favorite caregiver and her whole medical team. Come vent here anytime so you can be strong for your wife.

Business clients Wednesday and Thursday. A full day of CE on Friday. Funeral and a flu shot Saturday. Jump out of a perfectly good airplane with my two children Sunday.

Prayers.

Waiting on one to call to confirm that she did not make a 2012 IRA contribution. Hubby is delivering, obtaining signatures from four local ones so I can e-file. And, I'm working on ours. (Used to start ours first, it got me familiar with the new year in the software, but didn't complete it and often used it to try out things. Then, I'd get busier sooner and not get much done on ours. I think the last few years I've been preparing ours last, after paying customers. Last year, I moved it ahead to get it in on time/keep my license and made those last-minute clients wait. This year it was the last one I started. Want to NOT do that again.) Have one who dropped off yesterday and was told she'll be late. One who brought in two years and was told he'll be late (two states, SE, dozens of PTPs, thousands of investments, FLLP, and a trust that's already late and has to be completed to get his K-1). And a few that haven't dropped off.