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Welcome. Of course, I meant e-File kit. It's a nice folder with the chart in English/Spanish, posters, sample brochures, and (the part I like best) the little blue/yellow stickers saying this return was e-filed that I put on the cient copies. I can't find a Pub. # for the Kit, so maybe it's not available as a package anymore. The stickers are Pub. 3010.

Pub. 2043 and also included in the IRS d-File Marketing Kit.

That came from a different law from a different time and remains in effect. In fact, has the House voted on the 1099 repeal yet?

In 2006, HRB charged $54.25 for EIC, worksheet, and checklist at a Premium office in Fairfield County, CT, to a client who now comes to my company.

SMH. I think I will use that often! :spaz:

Serves 12.

Looks a lot like Bellwood Avenue, Bellwood, IL, where I grew up and where my sister still lives west of the city. Wish you guys would keep your midwest storms to yourselves instead of sending them out here to mix with our nor'easters and spawn giant mutant storms. They don't play well on our narrow, windy, hilly roads.

Hope it wasn't you who has to pick glass shards out of a keyboard. Cool videos! Thanx for sharing.

My software knows I use the Practioner PIN and does everything needed, including using the last five digits of their SSN.

The IRS doesn't care about their agreement, just which parent had the child the most nights. Have your client get out her calendar and count the nights the child spent with her for all of 2010. It wasn't a leap year, so unless they dragged the child out of bed in the middle of one night I doubt if each parent had the child 182 1/2 nights.

I too called QB before buying a new computer. Was told QB 2010 and 2011 will run on 64-bit, but not earlier versions. She emailed me a couple of knowledge base articles about installing QB on 64-bit. My techie who was setting up my new system installed QB 2010 from the disks, also ProSystem fx 2009 and 2010 from the disks. CCH had told me what file to copy from old computer/backup to new computer (wfx32). I'd hoped to keep old computer to run older programs, but it's not salvageable, not economically. So, I will still have to deal with older tax programs as I already have some old returns needing to be prepped. My older tax programs were ATX, so hope I still have the disks (have moved my home office and swapped out some used furniture, meaning I boxed up lots of stuff during the shuffle) and can find them! My techie talked about "compatibility mode," so I'll deal with the older programs as I have to, probably with company support and my paid techie too.

The parents are not in college, their child is. The child received the scholarship. If greater than his qualified expenses, the student has taxable income. (Or, in this case, if spent on non-qualified expenses, the student has income.) This also is used as a planning tool, since the student often has a lower tax rate. It works if the funds are allowed to be used for other than tuition, etc. (some scholarships are not allowed, not refunded to the student). The student uses his scholarship for non-qualified expenses, taking the income on his tax return at his lower rate. The parents pay the tuition and take the education credit/deduction against their higher income/rate.

Sounds like the student got another $1500 scholarship money that will be taxable to him. I think you have to force it to line 7. Haven't had one of those. (If the kid hadn't PO'd his parents, there would be other ways to calculate the taxable part.)

Or at least if you have to listen to them fuss and moan, you've made it worth your while!

Yes, I think your fees are too low.

Thanks for the warning. I'd disabled VMS back-ups when my computer was acting up in December to preserve my files as they were when the computer was still behaving. Have a new computer set up now, and just today called and had them set me up to back-up each night to them and to my external hard drive. I'll definitely check tomorrow.

Lunch. You need some protein and don't want to stop moving until your muscles recover. Then, nap! CT is now officially the snowiest winter and the snowiest January in our history. I have an ice dam that was dripping into our living room. Last year, I had a large mail slot put in my front door. Clients loved it for dropping off. This year, you can't get to my front door. I'd shoveled only part of the front walkway by the time ice crusted over the rest making it too much for us to do ourselves. My plow guy is clearing the driveway with each snow (what a bill I'll get from him!) and was able to tackle my front walk before this last storm. Now it's covered in 14 inches of snow but also has a thick layer of ice at the bottom from sunny days and then refreezing each night. As long as clients call, I tell them to drive all the way around to the basement door which is off our driveway. I hate to bring them in that way with a door peeling paint and through our cave of an unfinished basement full of storage and water seepage and old fluorescent fixtures that are failing. We're covering everything with salt in hopes no one slips. My insurance is paid up! Not to mention all the time spent on the telephone and emails trying to reschedule and explain the safest way in or the alternate route to my house to avoid the steep hill. My biggest worry is beyond me solving, either by doing it myself or paying. It's the snow the town constantly plows into the end of our driveway, making it slippery on an uphill rise; and the fact that the town's snowbanks on either side of my driveway make it impossible to see oncoming cars. One of my clients said to just make the sign of the cross and gun it. My back muscle keeps going into spasms, so have been taking the heavy-duty muscle relaxants that leave me woozy for a day or two. My husband (after years of conducting choruses) has no cartilege left in his shoulders and is facing surgery so isn't reaching up to brush snow off our roof. We're way too old for this and way too poor to pay for it all to be done for us. Time to look for a nice retirement condo.

We could celebrate your birthday four times longer in 2012 !!

Aren't the 2008 amounts of up to $7,500 (round I = tax-free loan) repayable in 15 installments of up to $500 each beginning on the returns we are filing this season? I had only one that year, and she hasn't come in yet (and was for a very small amount anyway).

First paying 2010 return dropped off on Sunday, so I've had time to deal with a late return for a continuing client. This guy got me his 2009 material 1 December 2010, but computer died (techie, order from Dell, and techie again for setting up) and we were out of state for a week over the holidays, so it was last week before I completed it. I feel like one month of his lateness is my fault. Anyway, he can FedEx from his office and get a discount, but mailing means a trip to the PO. I've done as much as I can do. It's his decision now.

Tried PPL and even my friendly, local IRS Liaison who speaks at our CtSEA meeting, etc. Neither had heard of a Post of Duty or street addresses for IRS Service Centers. Liaison even searched around online and found nothing that I had not already found. Think I'll tell client to use the PO or call himself !!

Me, too.

Our tax dollars at work!

Thank you, Catherine. I knew a list had to exist someplace, but I sure couldn't find it. His 2009 balance due to the IRS would go to a PO Box in St. Louis. With no St. Louis street address, should he just pick one?