Lion EA

Start on the Charities & Non-Profits tab on IRS.gov. Also, some states have a separate entity for charities & non-profits, so do look on the state's web site, too. (CT does not, think TX does.)

Just check the box for the federal. All the dissolution stuff takes place at the state(s) level.

Fairfield County, CT, my last fill-up was nearing $4 for the cheap stuff, but credit. But, I walk down the hall to my home office also, so my last fill-up was a long time ago. I've seen signs for over $4 lately. Daughter-in-law bought a used Prius to balance out the carbon footprint with my son's used Ford F-150 pick-up truck.

Ask to see his last paystub. Maybe it has a more understandable explanation. It also could allow you to compute whether pre-tax or after-tax.

I have e-filed with an installment plan included.

Maybe your printer is no longer directed to "print in the background." So other operations stop when you're printing. Or, does keyboard entry still work, just not the mouse?

I'm sorry, Linda; we all "knew" and loved Linda and Buddy. And, Jainen, sorry about Sparky.

If he still owns the 1/32nd working interest, then he doesn't have a realized loss.

It's never too early for vodka (that's Russian for "little water"). I'll have mine with tonic to alleviate my leg cramps. Purely medicinal.

Have your client ask his brother what to use for depreciation?!

Hey, NE, all our prayers are with you and your family. His willingness to work hard will show through. Keep us posted.

Totally opposite: hubby's having shoulder surgery! (Other one in the fall.)

Employer provides clothing with company name on it to his employees, requiring them to wear the sanctioned uniforms, required by franchisor to have his employees wear those uniforms, I'd deduct it as uniforms.

If you client owns pets of his own, he certainly cannot consider shared items such as toys, food dish, etc. Have him bring in his contract.

Thank you very much. I have lots of state resources, and they do help with the state returns. But, issues with how state items can or cannot be reported on the federal return are seldom covered in those references. That's one of the many reasons that the personal experiences shared on this board are so helpful.

I have her detail now: Prior O.T. 73.16 Own Tax 386.71 Lic. Fee 78.36 Road Fee 23.00 Bridge Fee 9.00 Can I take the 386.74 on Sch A? Any of the others?

Thanx.

One of my CT clients moved to CO during 2010, so a PY CO return. One question I have: She paid $538.23 for what she labeled CO car registration & tax (combined) and $22 for CO driver's license. Is any part of the $538.23 a property tax and deductible on her federal 1040 Schedule A? She expects to stay retired and have no earned income in CO, so moving expenses won't be deductible. Any CO tips are appreciated, as I haven't done a CO return in years and years.

Thank you, John. I have been working toward your method. This season I'm closer. I just gave one reluctant extender (the biz line sale) my reasoning for needing research time after the rush of tax season to work with her husband and how he treated the purchase and intervening use of that biz asset over the years (15% capital gain vs. 35% ordinary income). Was aiming for Sunday for extensions that I can file via my software &/or calculations re payments by 18 April, and hope to be close to that. Have a part-time assistant who'll come in next week to file some states that need to be done individually on the states' web sites. Leaning toward separate extension $ amounts and 1Q ES $ amounts to pay by 15 April. After all, have state ES anyway, so may as well have federal ES as well as the extension payment. Email clients the vouchers and extensions and have them mail in with checks? Thanx for everyone's thoughts. Really helps this sole proprietor.

In a couple of the cases, it is all my fault. With a death in the family, and waiting the entire month of March for Dell to repair my computer, I'm behind and putting clients on extension that would prefer not to be, who have brought me their materials. Now, that includes the partnership that sold a business line and is expecting capital gain treatment now when he treated it as inventory in prior years, so I have some research to do; and the clients missing items. But, I have some unhappy campers as it is. So, I don't want their P&I any higher than it has to be. What do all of you do? Print both ES vouchers and extensions and compute amounts for your clients to pay? Or, pump of the extension amount to cover ES too?

The broker does the recharacterization. You'll report it based on the documents issued for the year it is done.

Depletion always has me looking it up, and my energy K-1s haven't come in yet. But, I do know that DPGR is limited by W-2 wages, which in your case are 0 so no DPGR. Use the numbers from the K-1; don't override.

That's what I'm worried about. This time of year I have my high income people. If I have them put a lump sum in with their extension, meaning to apply the refund to ES when we file, but having their 1Q ES reported on their return file date in, say, June, instead of on their extension paid date before 18 April, it'll really run up the interest they'll owe next year. So, should I generate BOTH the extension forms as well as the 1Q ES voucher for them to send in TWO checks now, well four with the state?

So, after a death in the family and my new Dell being dead most of March, I'm definitely putting some returns on extension now. For those who pay ES (the self-employed) and typically have balances due, should I work up an amount to pay with the extensions AND the April ES payments? Or, dump payments into the extension only and then when the returns are done, apply the resulting refunds to ES payments? Will the latter generate late payment or underpayment P&I on their 2011 returns because the April ES payments don't get funded until the returns are filed over the summer? Or will they be deemed to have been made now when the extension payments that generated the refunds that are applied to ES payments are made? In short, two forms or one?

My husband's been using a similar app called Get Human.