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Extensions. If money is due, mail checks with extensions if direct debit is not available or they are in the process of changing their banking.

Well, it sounds as if each has motivation now. Because they are not married, not even under state law, I might prepare their returns as Single using their own separate income and deductions, and then -- if not too complex a mix of income and expenses -- would make use of Line 21 to adjust with a label something like Court-ordered Income Split with Name, SSN. In my software, I can include a return note detailing my calculations. Otherwise, a nice Excel worksheet or Form 8958 marked across the top Court-ordered Income Split with Name, SSN, and paper file.

And that the return qualified for MeF in 2011. Check with the states, also; many are still Legacy only.

I'm spending the morning redistributing my sea that's collected since Wednesday with things I'm working on, people dropping off, people paying, little pieces of paper with phone messages and notes, and me being out of the office until 10 p.m. Wednesday night and most of yesterday while things continued to arrive via my mail slot, mail, email, fax, and voice mail. Have to stop to change a light bulb that burned out a couple of days ago and do some laundry, but am determined to end up with folders and stacks so I can find everything before this afternoon is over. Oh, and have a huge return that I reprinted to feed to the shredder.

We love you, Bob. Keep up your good life. Go hug your wife for joining this stage of your life!

Yes. What's the phrase in Circ. 230: Know or should have known...

Tell you farrier to put a desk in a corner and measure the square footage! Or the square footage of where she stores her supplies. Why not get OIH if she has no other place to do her admin work?!

No step up if it was in plan when he died/she inherited retirement funds. She did not inherit stock, she inherited a retirement plan. Distribution is ordinary income 1099-R. When she later sells it, her basis is amount she paid tax on, is it $10,000? However, there are some additional rules when company stock is in a retirement plan, so you need to research that, if Box 5 increases her basis or Dad had already made an election re that. May apply only to Dad as she doesn't work for the company... Did company send any explanatory materials?

But, if it was part of her father's retirement plan, I don't think it gets a step up. It's going to be ordinary income when she took it out.

Computer only a couple years old with biggest, fastest everything, a gamer's computer at the advice of my techie who said I needed a good video card, etc, to rewrite the screens quickly to see gov forms on one monitor while doing data entry on another. Going to have him over here when I can spare a few minutes off the computer as I have a couple of annoying problems, like more pop-ups than usual when I think I have all the settings to block pop-ups. I appreciate how you look out for us, Eric. Thank you.

She's now full time, so why can't she take AOC?

Taxable and should be on his W-2.

No, there's a support test for a QC too, and it's #3 above. The QR support test is the one about providing more than half the support of a QR.

IE 9 and then in hopes it would clear up a couple of different problems, I updated to IE 10 with no noticeable change.

Mine loads with half the screen blacked out momentarily until the whole page appears.

She can deduct what she paid on expenses that she is legally liable for.

Some camps break out the daytime part from the room & board; in that case I do take the daytime cost. Although, I think all my clients' children have aged out of child care credit, so I haven't done that in years.

And you still need the lower of her adjusted cost basis on the placed-in-service date or the FMV on that date, so she has some research to do also.

Right now, there is no Pope!

Glad to hear your laugh is healing too, KC. True story: Many years ago my father had kidney surgery with an incision that went around his body. (We teased him about them cutting him apart so they could work in two operating rooms.) Our minister visited Daddy in the hospital and joked and had him laughing and crying in pain; Daddy joked right back and cracked up the minister, too. The patient next door stormed in and told them to quiet down. So, our minister opened his arms, bowed his head, and boomed out, "LET US PRAY." The embarrassed patient slinked out. And, Daddy couldn't stop laughing! PS I think our minister visited the neighboring patient, also.

Knot mi!

Amen!

We have smarter, nicer people over here!

Weekends, those are those time frames between 15 October and 31 December when we see our families, right?

This will be my stepdaughter's 10th year, starting as a youth. A couple of years ago she asked me to go, but it was tax season and the training had started so I was concerned I couldn't give it my all. I blocked out the dates for 2012 and trained and served last year for the first time. ASP is a really great group. Locally, it's sponsored by a church in a neighboring town. This year, I've recruited a few more from my church to join our group. We send about 150 people to five centers (last year included VA, WV, and NC). Our first big Rally is this Wednesday! Now if I can just strengthen my back more before summer, so I don't have to take pain pills...