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Some years back when I was the "producer" of our church newsletter (typed in all the articles the editor gave me to make a pretty booklet out of it each month, because she didn't use a computer) I went to a Christian clip-art site to get some free clip-art for our booklets. I got the clip-art and hundreds of emails. This was back when we in the country had dial-up, so anything was slow to do. It took a LONG time for my mail to load each day with all the extra spam. Hundreds and hundreds a day for days. Mostly porn sites of one type or another. Our computer was in the living room for our children to use for their homework. I never opened, never clicked links, just kept deleting for days and days. It slowed down quickly and eventually stopped. Porn sites?!

Excel: The Best Forums to Ask Questions There are so many possible things to do with Excel that it's easy to get stuck on something. Your first instinct should be to Google your question. But when looking for something really specific, that doesn't always work. In that case you can ask your question to real people on a forum. In this short post I'll share with you my 3 favorite places to ask questions about Excel. https://www.excelfrog.com/forum

These Are The 69 World’s Best Excel Blogs That Will Teach You Everything About Spreadsheets Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. If you are looking for practical, in-depth educational blogs about Excel, you’ve come to the right place. Here are the top 69 best blogs to learn everything about Excel. As you already know, there’s no shortage of awesome content about Excel. However, we decided to separate the wheat from the chaff and hand-pick the very best blogs for you. Whether you’re brand new to Excel or an “Excel-geek”, these blogs give you all the tools, tips and tricks to skyrocket your skills in Excel as quickly (and easy) as possible. UPDATE (July 20th, 2020): A few links have been updated (some removed) and a few new blogs have made it to the list. https://spreadsheeto.com/best-excel-blogs/

Hi, MsTabbyKats! Nice to hear from you again. Stop by once in a while to catch us up on your life. Stay well.

I went through a bunch of Brother all-in-ones a few years back. Never again. Only HP for me. My printers have always been HP, but I succumbed to a Brother on price and actually replaced it with another Brother at least twice. Was optimistic it was a single problem in an old model, but I was wrong. HP is the workhorse of printers. Fujitsu if you want a scanner only.

And, payroll reports. I need to read about CT's new myconneCT and set up an account and make it work with QBDT for my tiny payroll. Except for the tax types not yet open under myconneCT that still must be paid via Taxpayer Service Center. And, PPP forgiveness applications. And, laundry. And, my NY/CT-ATP on-demand courses for September and October. And, a few other on-demand courses I haven't completed. And, sleep. And, visit my grandkids before they forget who I am! And,...

If mother is a household employee of your client, then your client files Form W-2. If mother runs her own daycare business, then your client asks for her mother's biz name, TID, and amount received from your client, an annual statement to back up her Form 2441. However, your question is about your client's Flexible Spending Account at her employer, so your client can ask her employer what type of documentation, payment receipts, etc., she needs from her daycare provider/mother to turn into her employer's FSA to get reimbursed, use up her 2020 FSA contributions.

Tuesday 20 October: CCH Software News - October 15, 2020, Extension Filing Deadline Dear CCH Customer: The extended due date for 2019 Individual (1040) and Corporation (1120) returns is Thursday, October 15, 2020. Information for electronically filing returns through the deadline is as follows. Timely Filed To be timely filed, CCH must receive your returns before 11:59 PM CDT on Thursday, October 15, 2020. Note: To avoid processing issues with the taxing authorities, we validate all returns before submission to the taxing authorities. If we stop returns for schema validation errors (Status 490), you must review and resubmit these returns in a timely fashion. Important: Linked state returns are not transmitted until the IRS acknowledgement is returned for the federal return. Because certain states such as Illinois, Oregon, and Wisconsin no longer honor the vendor timestamp as the state transmission time, we further recommend you release your state returns for transmission separately from the federal return, particularly if you cannot get the full return filed by 9:00 PM CDT. This allows the state return to transmit without the return of the federal acknowledgment. The easiest way to submit the state return separately from the federal return is to uncheck the federal return on the export window. Individual Timely Filing of Rejected Returns If the IRS rejects any of your returns, they will be considered timely filed if you resubmit them electronically and obtain approval from the IRS by Tuesday, October 20, 2020. If your returns continue to get rejected after this date, you will have five days to paper file the return to be considered timely filed. Please monitor the e-File Status System using the filter Not Accepted/All to verify that all returns have been transmitted and are accepted prior to 8:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. E-filed Returns Allowed After Tuesday, October 20, 2020 In addition to federal returns, the following state/city returns can be filed using our software year-round (current year plus two years), except for when the IRS shuts down their systems for 6-8 weeks in the middle of November to prepare for the new filing season: Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Michigan-Detroit Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Missouri-Kansas City Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York New York City North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Ohio City Form 37 (RITA) Oklahoma Oregon Oregon-Multnomah, Tri-County, Lane Transit Pennsylvania Philadelphia South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Michigan Cities filed on the Common Form, Ohio Cities not filed on Form 37, and Rhode Island returns will be transmitted through the IRS' annual maintenance shut-down sometime late-November. Additional communication will be sent once that information is provided by the taxing authorities. Corporation Timely Filing of Rejected Returns If the IRS rejects any of your Corporation returns, you have 10 calendar days to resubmit the return and obtain approval from the IRS. Based on information received for Corporation returns, the following states do not conform to the IRS 10-day perfection period for submitting rejected returns: Connecticut and Mississippi rejected returns. These states allow five business days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. New York rejected returns. New York allows seven calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Utah rejected returns. Utah allows 20 calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. New York City, Pennsylvania Form PA-RCT-101, Virginia, and West Virginia rejected returns. These states have no defined perfection period. Returns must be filed and approved by the due date to be considered timely. S Corporation and Partnership State Returns Based on information received for S Corporation returns that have an October 15 filing deadline, the following states do not conform to the IRS 10-day perfection period for submitting rejected returns: Vermont rejected returns. Vermont allows five calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Utah rejected returns. Utah allows twenty calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Virginia rejected returns. The state has no defined perfection period. Returns must be filed and approved by the due date to be considered timely. Based on information received for Partnership returns that have an October 15 filing deadline, the following states do not conform to the IRS 10-day perfection period for submitting rejected returns: Vermont rejected returns. Vermont allows five calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Virginia rejected returns. Virginia has no defined perfection period. Returns must be filed and approved by the due date to be considered timely. Paper Returns If the IRS rejects any of your returns, the return does not fall into an e-file mandate, and you choose to file a paper return, the deadline is as follows. The paper return must be postmarked by the latter of the following: The due date of the return (including extensions) or 10 calendar days after the date the IRS last gave notification that the return was rejected Sincerely, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, North America

I've heard some tax preparers guessing that the e-file shutdown date will be about 21 November, because that's the last day for online non-filers' filing for an EIP.

We paid nothing for a long time until we paid a lot. Plus, didn't the EA renewal fee go down to balance out the PTIN fee going up? We're so lucky to pay the government to help tax payers comply with the government (sarcasm emoji).

Thank you, Judy. That's bringing back an old memory. I have pretty active investors, but mostly capital gains and dividends. This just hadn't come up before, not recently enough that I could search for what I did. And, it's my own husband !! Thank you.

CT also has strict state laws about who can practice accounting and what services are included in accounting. I guess we have a strong accountants' lobby. (Strong insurance lobby and a few others, too.)

I didn't receive an invite to renew early and wouldn't do anything that reduces my sleep time until after 15 October! But, I usually get to it right after extensions to get it done and over with.

IRS 2019 Form 1099-OID where do I enter... 6. Acquisition Premium $18.85 11. Tax-exempt OID $26.47 The same Morgan Stanley 1099-INT had... 1. Interest Income $241.19 8 Tax-exempt Interest $1,312.50 The really big numbers were dividends, but these interest numbers are either new to me or I'm too tired to remember. Thank you.

Saw on another site that a tax preparer is interpreting the 21 November end date for using the non-filers portal to file for an EIP as the possible end date for e-filing.

Is the election done on Form 3508 (regular, EZ, or S) or by formally or informally notifying the bank or...?

I'm also not a CPA and haven't had to learn footnotes. (My MBA is in finance, but I was only one accounting course short of a double major in accounting. My best instructor told me to major in accounting but to never tell anyone or I'd end up doing all the grunt work!) I do know that CCH has great textbooks. Also, webinars. And, they purchased CPELink a few years ago, so all the CCH CPELink education now benefits from the CCH inhouse experts/CPAs/lawyers as well as their stable of national speakers/writers. I would think AICPA would have great resources, too. Good luck. They are lucky to have you. Compute the CPA firm's hourly amount on their $60K per year ($750/hour?) and apply it to your 2,080 or more annual hours -- and ask for a raise!

Quick fill it out before there's another interim final rule!

Thank you. Don't use Firefox, so it didn't come to mind. Yeah, silly Nana.

Uh, dumb question here. What is an FF setting? Or, as my granddaughter would say, "Silly Nana!"

I see what you mean, not a lot of difference from gray to black. But black plus larger is definitely helpful for these old eyes.

Thank you, Judy. After writing the above, I backed all the way out of this site and of Chrome, too. Now that I'm back on, the toggle switch is back to gray and no longer green. And, I didn't get an email that you'd replied. So, I guess I hadn't logged out before. It's nice to know it works, but this is not a thread I need to know immediately when someone replies.

And, how do I stop following this topic. I clicked on the Follow topic button to test it out a few days ago. I unclick it -- move it back from green to gray -- but it now defaults to following and I continue to receive emails.

I see gray type on this and some other message boards. I hate it. Too hard to read. And, even enlarging doesn't help that much, because the gray is still gray and blurrier as I enlarge it. I don't know why gray should be the new black.

Abby: Importing is faster for me than breaking out the wash sales. My clients have a LOT of trades! And, multiple brokerage accounts. I do want easy.