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Hope your 911 calls are no more frantic than this one! I think his stubbornness will help him heal faster.

Enjoy your comfortable surroundings. And, do invest in some respite caregiving to let you get out of the house. It'll be good for both of you.

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Catching up on my sleep, doing laundry, NY letters, telephone calls from the IRS!!, W/H & ES questions/recalculations, catching up on neglected biz clients, etc. Haven't even started on any extensions yet. Will vacation for a couple of days from Mothers' Day visiting my son and his wife, staying at their Inn at Starlight Lake, PA, and seeing the bakery they opened in Hancock, NY; stepdaughter will come for a day or two with a friend, so whole family. I think it's because Elrod wouldn't share his bananas.

At least a diagnosis and treatment. Sunday is a good day for all of us to pray! Hang in there.

Custodial parent can sign Form 8332 to the non custodial parent. Parent. No other relative. Parent If grandfather had child living with him longer than anyone else and more than half the year, he might qualify to take dependency deduction. You'll have to step through the rest of the requirements. Did anyone else live with the child? Was it a parent? Etc., etc.

Me, too!

We're praying. You both will be more confortable at home. I'm lay reader on Sunday, so lots of prayers will get sent up when I lead the prayers of the people. You can do this!

If you're asking about receiving CPE for Tax Talk Live programs: If you watch live on your computer, you need to click a button a few times during the program when a chime sounds, screen pops up, whatever you're directed to do at the beginning of the program. No right or wrong, just being there. If you watch an archived program, you take a short test to prove you watched. I haven't done that. I imagine directions are at the beginning or end of the program with the test at the end or a link to the test at the end. New CPE rules require providers to report your CPE to the IRS and your state organizations based on your PTIN. Formerly, you kept track of your own certificates. I don't know the date of change, so it wouldn't hurt to keep your certificates.

The TT that come in -- after getting an IRS letter -- deducted their equipment and their new SUV (not just the mileage) long before they ever started the business. I have one now who opened three LLCs in CT and has been ignoring the $250/year/LLC notices from CT and kept calling to ask why I wanted her to pay all that money by 15 April, why I included CT Forms OP-424 with their returns. DIY software computed ES payments they never made; now they want to know why they're getting letters to pay more because they paid the "right" amount of balance due. TT lets them take their grown children living at home as dependents long after they're making as money as Dad, long into their 20s and 30s. TT doesn't add a Schedule C "because I'm not making any money yet," but then they call when they receive a Form 1099 in April or an IRS letter in June. My clients are smart enough to answer the TT questions in the way that gives them the lowest tax liability, and are sure they're smarter than IRS civil servants -- until they get that letter!

At the income levels I deal with, people erred in their own favor, usually unknowingly, sometimes because they were told by promoters, etc., and then received that goverment letter. The clients that did a rollover and didn't report it, but maybe had 20% W/H so that'll be taxable. The NY commuter who worked from home and didn't report it as NY-sourced income. The OIH who used the same area % as the depreciation % (that was a HRB preparer doing returns on the side from their kitchen table, paper and pencil, for a baker using her home kitchen on Saturdays, not regular nor exclusive anyway, but 25% ?! Whole house'd been depreciated in four years long ago!). The IRA distribution with 10% W/H who didn't report it "because I already paid taxes on it." The multi-state returns that didn't start with federal AGI but just with their income in that state. The SE that deducted 100% of their car or their cell phone or.... Those ladies who sell clothing or make-up or...at home parties and deduct their own products and the furnishings they bought for their living rooms to show their products and their vacations where they wore their products or.... The losses reported on sales of primary residences. Have one now who got caught in 2010 for 2008 not reporting his investment income; but he didn't amend NY and CT. Now, NY wants as much in taxes, penalties, and interest, as his unreported income was! And, it's too late to get him a credit in CT for 2008. Yeah, when I fix the DIY, it costs them more.

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Wonderful news! Continued healing to Don. A more stress-free atmosphere to you, I hope. Do hire help or accept volunteers from church, neighbors, where ever, to give you some free time out of the house. We love you and continue to pray for all of you.

The CT chapter of NAEA, CtSEA, usually meets in Cromwell. The CT chapter of NATP meets far east of me also. I see a number of courses in the greater New Haven area and up 91, and get emails from RI events and LI. My favorite group is the NY/CT-ATP. Dues are only $60/year, $50 if paid on time. Dinner meetings with 1-2 CPEs are $30 with great food (including prime rib carving board) and great networking and great education, six per year. But, if you attend the December seminar, they rebate $20/meeting attended !! I think you get the first dinner meeting free when you join. All day October seminar and two-day December seminar priced accordingly and include all meals. They give scholarships; I got $250 two different years, so was in the black on those memberships! Monthly meetings are in Bethel; December seminar in Danbury; both locations off I-84 (I spent the night for $80 in December to save driving). I love the networking, especially the NYers. They have a great website and message board. Members can look up members by their specialty or the software they use or.... You can check out the public part of their website at http://nyctatp.org/

One safe harbor is based on 2010 tax liability, so that's sometimes easier to obtain than calculating 90% of 2011 with missing 1099-Bs.

I think it's 15 CPEs/year for RTRPs, but you'll want to confirm that. IRS gives free webinars all year long; watch them live or archived. Tax Talk Today is inexpensive if you buy a package. Your software company may provide a few freebies as well as paid courses. Professional groups have education, often with a meal, and networking opportunities. Some brokerages give free CPEs. Tell us where you live, and someone will have suggestions for you. But, the webinars can be attended from the convenience of your computer. http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=99008,00.html Scroll down to the links under Upcoming Events.

Sometimes there's a folder for unused icons, maybe on your desktop.

Think ATX and Taxwise now are headquartered in Rome, GA, so maybe they are having a user conference their for their small business division...

But, if you've had success for 40 years and can marvel at the lack of knowledge of others with professional designations, then you'll ge through an open-book test just fine. There's lots of free CPE out there to do what you have to to meet the requirements. No need to quit. Your clients want and need your care. Nothing much will change much for you, after that one day taking a test -- and it's just sitting in front of a computer like you do all tax season!

I have enough clients on extension to bring in cash through 15 October. And, I have a couple of business clients that need me weekly or nearly that, so monthly invoices to them and payments from them. I'm trying to spread out my workload and my income throughout the year.

CCH has a user conference for ProSystem fx and other products in San Diego in November. Last year was San Antonio.

I had lots of people give me nothing this year, and told me not like last year, and a few new clients still looking for last year's returns. So, I did more $0 extensions than ever before. CT site had troubles for a while (CT can't be filed via software). But, I efiled all that I could and extended the rest. Our own extensions are in to federal and CT electronically and IL via mail with a check. Filed NC on their website. CO doesn't seem to have an extension form, just a way to pay and that client retired without a pension, moved to CO and isn't likely to owe. I hope. Another one of those $0 that I'm not sure about with big change since 2010. Ended up sending hubby to the PO twice today: once with our own IL extension and then again with three CT trusts that I just couldn't work out extending on the CT website (think I need an account for each client as CT has been having trouble with the "bulk filer" numbers they assign me). I did efile the trust federal extensions that had me worried about name controls recently. I'm frazzled, but I had new clients, referrals, this year so a good year. Lots of extensions to keep the money coming in for months to come.

Thank you everyone for being my colleagues, for helping, for not judging, for understanding, for providing a safe place to vent, and for caring about one another.

And, four returns to charge for!