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And, please post when you know more. I have a high-income client who started a Simple and will probably be in during February.

Drinks are on you! :P

The bankruptcy estate, it's a separate entity from her. Time to call the recipient of the interest.

Kansas City, MO, also is home to H&R Block. Surprised you taxies didn't mention your neighbor!

Had she not paid interest for awhile? And, then the interest got paid off by the buyer? Was there an auction or sale? Did the estate pay a percentage of the interest she owed?

For CO: 1) Snow 2) Snow 3) Snow I went to a convention in CO (Colorado State University, maybe) the end of June one year; we bussed up to Estes Park on our free time. It started snowing while we were on the bus. The driver had to stop to let the girls from down south get off and play in the snow that they'd never seen for real before!

Ask us a question, Bob...

Ive had states rejected when the federal was accepted. CT and NY and not OH, but still the same issue. I'd want to know for sure that I don't need to be retransmitting or fixing a state return.

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Maybe as an ATX customer you can get ProSystem fx as pay per return to prepare this corporation. Definitely look for a mentor. Extend if you have to to be able to be unrushed, as well as not rushing your mentor. Start with things you might have around, like TTB Deluxe or your old accounting book. You already understand the P&L and depreciation and lots of issues, as well as know the client and how he works. The biggy is the balance sheet. Read up on it in an old accounting book or Accounting for Dummies. Don't trust his QB to produce an accurate BS. Build it yourself by asking him questions and researching his ending bank balances, loans in and out, capital assets and corresponding depreciation, etc. Just go down the lines on the BS to see what applies to him. I think starting from scratch is the way to learn with a single shareholder corporation. The starting balance sheet will be all zeros. I actually think C-corporations are the easiest since they stand alone. Either they balance or they don't. If you're lucky, you client has treated it like a corp, like a separate entity, and there won't be undocumented back and forth with his personal accounts like you see with your small Schedule Cs and partnerships. Get his payroll documents. You may have to do or redo his bookkeeping, but you will really know the flow of his company if you do his bookkeeping too. Post here as you have questions. Keep us posted.

Hey, isn't Chicago the home of deep dish pizza? I grew up in Bellwood, IL, home of Eugene Cernon, astronaut Sanford Ink Company, maker of Magic Markers a singer who's name escapes me went to Proviso East High School once was the largest train yard, maybe still is then I grew up and lived in Santa Barbara, CA, the bedroom community for LA and moved to Weston, CT, the bedroom community for NYC

I visit this site and The Tax Book's board often and QuickFinders, too. A listing of sites is TaxSites.com. IRS is great when you can find what you want/know their terminology. And, I'm in CT, so DRS. NAEA and NATP have good sites and a message board on NAEA. Tax Almanac has a lot of information, articles, etc., but their board has a lot of consumers asking personal questions. I own The Tax Book 1040 and All States this year, last year it was the Deluxe edition and the WebCD. Will probably return to the WebCD since it's always updated and has both personal and business. I have good local chapters of NAEA (CtSEA) and NY/CT-ATP for seminars and networking. The people on this site and TTB's are invaluable for pointing me in the right direction.

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Hey you can come down here. Just painted the guest bathroom. But, it's only as far south as CT and icy! But, if you ever want to untangle the cords under my computer or network my fax and laptop to my desktop...

Aren't the green founding fathers on a Turbo Tax commercial? I used to work for Block, but was dismayed to hear their commercial putting down CPAs.

Thanx, Kyle. One of my clients is new to Mac. As well as his own new laptop, he's hired a new employee/maybe it's a contractor who also has a Mac laptop running parallels. Client has had difficulty moving his old Outlook Sent e-mail; newbie has had difficulty sending e-mail. If you think you have a good Mac/PC person, I'll have him talk to you about a VMS contract.

If a dependent was born or died during the year and lived with the taxpayer while she was alive, then it is as if dependent lived with taxpayer the full year.

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That's why I'm backing up to VMS. My office is in my home so I'd lose everything in a robbery or fire or flood, and waiting for Monday morning when the bank opens... Thank for the info on encryption. Maybe I'll return to my rotating flash drives, too. They're so handy, especially during tax season when I want VERY frequent back-ups. VMS uses Corbian to back-up.

I had at least three rotating flash drives until someone mentioned how easy it is to have one stolen or lose it; and it can't be password protected. The IT folks at my husband's school system recommended a Seagate external drive. I was using it and thinking of getting a second to keep off site. I like the external drive, so if something happens to my computer, I can just plug it in to my husband's computer and be back in business until I get a more permanent solution. Also, I can grab it and run (a nor'easter or power outage or...) and get up and running with a rental or at the library or friend's home. Instead of another external drive (I have a home office, so no convenient off-site place to store it that I can get to 24/7) I went with storage at VMS as my second "external drive." They set it up for me to run automatically according to my schedule. I feel calmer knowing I have my tax returns and other data files stored away from home, but I can get to them. You can check with Kyle, but I think their prices start at $50/year depending on how much storage you require. In other words, to back-up my hard drive, I have the Seagate external here and VMS off-site.

Now you've opened it up to tax preparers to tell you what we've done during the stress of tax season to make everyone laugh. Uh oh, that could be more than we want to know! My little princess is the UConn marching band member you see on my avatar. She now plays the baritone horn (which probably weighs as much as one of your girls) instead of the flute and piccolo. This is her last semester; she graduates on Mother's Day. And, my son is grown and living in another state. They grow up so fast. Enjoy them while they still listen to you!

It's going to be even chillier in Caribou, ME, tonight. :angry:

But, that wasn't the OP's point. He was concerned about an out-of-country marriage that the couple themselves were concerned about being legal in this country until some type of registration the next year; their issue spanned a new calendar/tax year. So, even the couple seemed to be unsure of their marital status for 2008 in the US. If the couple felt sure of their marital status, that would be good enough for me. But, if the couple was unsure, I'd send them for legal advice.

Did you notice that Kerry posted a picture with his little Princess?! She's adorable. Almost as adorable as Kerry in his Princess outfit. Wonder why Kerry didn't use HIS Princess picture as his avatar, hmmm....

Amen, Brother John!