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Taxpayer married to spouse #1.  Spouse #1 dies 3/10/18.  Taxpayer remarries 12/10/18.  Taxpayer files MFJ with spouse #2.  Spouse #1 has significant income before death.  What filing status does spouse #1 use?

If you spend some time setting up the print sets it makes printing quicker.

11 minutes ago, Roberts said:

Someone get me a pole.

 

Polish (język polski [jɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlskʲi] (listen), polszczyzna, or simply polski) is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and is the native language of the Poles

I do not use QuickBooks over a VPN very often..  I use QuickBooks 2010 - 2018.  I have multiple files since each client has their own data file.  When I use QuickBooks over the VPN I do not run QuickBooks locally and access the data on elsewhere.  I log on to the remote computer and run QuickBooks there.

I use QuickBooks  over a VPN.  What problem do you have that makes it blow up?

Go ahead and petition the tax court to keep that option open

If this is an employee wouldn't those expenses be unreimbursed employee business expenses which are now not deductible?

The city of Kansas City bills people for made up stuff all the time.  I have way too many clients who just pay to make it go away.

I would think disregarded means disregarded.  It does not exist.  No such thing as a llc.  it is just the taxpayers and is reported as if it were owned by the taxpayer.

You guys are electrifying funny

Missouri went from 2 pages to 5 pages last year.

On 6/13/2018 at 1:12 PM, Jack from Ohio said:

Do  you have a Facebook account?  If yes, we can do Facebook video chat.  It is the next best thing to being there!!  If we can work it out, we may even stream live...

I have a facebook account.

On another board there was a thread similar to this.  One guy over there suggested sending a letter to the client stating if they did not pay they would contact the IRS and ask to be removed as paid preparer.  They also pointed out that that would cause the IRS to take their return out of the usual processing routine and could possible cause their return to be reviewed more closely.

In Missouri you can get a food pantry credit for donating food.  There is a limit on the amount of the credit each year so if you are not in early enough you don't get the credit since it has all been given away.  I have a client who donates a lot of food to our local food pantry.  Twice now Missouri asked for support for the withholding.  By the time the return got processed Missouri said he was too late for the credit.

You are suppose to file the 2553 now and with the tax return.

6 hours ago, Roberts said:

I had this last year and it's a doozy. Took the IRS until March this year to pay the refund which I'm guessing is because they were waiting to see if anyone else requested the refund. I honestly could understand the point - what if a kid files late and has proof they are the court appointed executor?

 

And yes the check came in the name of the person we listed on the form.

The problem I had was that the IRS basically refused to talk about the return with anyone because the client is deceased and the court didn't appoint someone as executor. The client checkbox is meaningless if the client is deceased. Even Power of Attorney is worthless the second the client dies (for the IRS).

POA's are worthless for everything to everyone when the person dies.  POA's die with the person.

The amount of the SEHI is the full premium without subtracting any PTC or APTC.

Made myself scrambled eggs since i make the best scrambled eggs ever

1 hour ago, Catherine said:

And Judy (aka @jklcpa the Magnificent) once again has a cite and quote and reference.  Judy, I have NO idea how you manage to do this in the midst of the busy tax season - but we all love you for it!

I tried to like this twice but it would not do it

My nephew told his watch he was at a certain bar and where was the closest liquor store.  The watch said it would call him a taxi.

There is a check box at the top of page two of the 1120S that indicates the accounting method used.

1 hour ago, jklcpa said:

Interesting, and thanks!  That kind of makes sense since he was born on a holiday, so they gave him the day earlier to make sure he wasn't harmed by the system making an erroneous calculation. Maybe that is what Rich remember too. 

I always thought it was because his parents lost out on the personal exemption by a few hours in the beginning so they gave it back to him at the end.

I thought all estate assets got a step up or down to market value on date of death.  Selling price should establish market value if close enough to date of death.

My fathers date of birth was January 1st.  Only thing I know about that was he was considered to have turned sixty five on December 31 of the previous year instead of the January 1 he really turned. 

On 3/18/2018 at 3:57 PM, jklcpa said:

Twinkle, twinkle, our next star,
How I wonder who you are!

It's week #5 and you all know the routine by now.  Who will have the best story this week?

How do I get everyone to like this so jklcpa wins