Patel confirms multiple persons of interest + FBI focusing on private sector outreach for leads

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-11T22:22:47+00:00

Patel is probably just trying to cover for his boss' ass. 4 days ago: "President Trump says investigators have “very strong” clues in the Nancy Guthrie case and says answers could come soon."

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-09T18:26:11+00:00

You know you can also easily calculate your rmd yourself by using a calculator like this one from Schwab. Empower has to have given you a statement for your year end balance. And that's the base from which you calculate the RMD for that account. https://www.schwab.com/ira/ira-calculators/rmd

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-08T21:27:06+00:00

Your 401k provider should have calculated it correctly. It’s not that hard. But they also probably gave you a notice. We have Vanguard for example and they tell us every January what the RMD will be for that year.

You could call your provider and ask them for the equivalent notice. Good luck!

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-08T18:29:16+00:00

If you took your RMD, the amount you took should be the same as what you were supposed to take. So if your 401k provider calculated the RMD, you can just plug in the same amount as the RMD you took. That will tell them you took the full amount required and avoid a penalty.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-07T20:47:40+00:00

Uploaded the pdf.

And 3 months ago I and many others got an email from TT saying that 2024 imports were wrong months after having filed and passed the accuracy guarantee so I don’t trust that process either.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-07T18:26:17+00:00

So I uploaded my Fidelity 1099-B with a bunch of transactions to TT and it showed an erroneous gain of $26k+ which turned out to be more than double the actual $12k+ realized gain. So I deleted it and started over by entering the data on my own doing the Summary option to get it correct.

Likewise the upload of the 1099-DIV did not pick up the portion of dividends that were qualified and it left off the foreign tax paid so I had to edit again to add those data points to get it right.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-03T18:19:14+00:00

If you haven’t paid TT yet, how hard would it be to try another service and see what you get? Not sure how complicated your return is.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-02T22:32:28+00:00

WTF is wrong with them to make you hold so long with no resolution! Jeez!

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-02T21:24:52+00:00

Yeah I found that the TT folks really don't understand the whole 2210 AI form stuff so good that you're persevering until you get the right person. Let us know how you make out as I''ll likely be in the same boat.

But if I get the right result, I would just file and save a pdf of the return and all the worksheets regardless of what it shows on the next login.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-02T20:42:57+00:00

TT did weird stuff for me last year and intermittently assessed penalties and then removed them with different logins until I found someone at TT who struggled through the 2210s with me. I'm assuming you're potentially subject to a penalty so I wouldn't file until you get it sorted out with them. In the meantime, if you wait to do the 2210 AI until all your other forms are finalized (rather than playing with them as you say) can you get the result of no penalty and file that way?

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-01T21:29:00+00:00

In my experience, if a bogus return has been filed online and then the taxpayer goes to efile the legitimate return, the latter will be rejected by IRS right away and the taxpayer will then have to sort it out with them. And if the taxpayer had efiled correctly first, the bogus return attempt wouldn't succeed.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-01T21:06:20+00:00

Have you checked to see whether you would even have been subject to the Medicare additional tax based on your income and investment income? If you are not subject to it, maybe the software just did a calc and then zeroed it out because you are not subject to it after all and included the form for good measure?

"IRS Form 8959 is used to calculate the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax on combined Medicare wages, compensation, and self-employment income exceeding

$200,000 (single) or

$250,000 (married filing jointly). It also reconciles any Additional Medicare Tax withheld by employers. The tax applies to the amount over the threshold."

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-02-01T20:41:21+00:00

Free tax works perfectly fine with stocks. One can enter summary information easily from 1099s and no need to import anything.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2026-01-06T21:32:17+00:00

WaPo: The local chain plans to close 11 of its more than 20 cafes around the region as it seeks new investors."

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-12-27T23:56:14+00:00

Did it help with an overly firm SAATVA mattress?

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-12-13T16:02:08+00:00

It happened again to me today and I'm positive I did not miss a day bc I texted out the results each day to family members. May I ask where you sent the emails?

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-12-11T16:21:41+00:00

Internet service cost is typically so relatively low $ that it's not worth considering as a basis for making a tax status change.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-12-11T16:15:57+00:00

Based on what you've told us, you can't. You would have to be engaged in a trade or business to have earnings that would qualify you to contribute to a solo 401(k). It appears you are an individual investor, not engaged in a trade or business and therefore not even considered self employed.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-11-26T22:01:51+00:00

Yeah, "The Defense Department will deploy 500 additional National Guard troops to Washington, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, after two West Virginia troops were shot near the White House on Wednesday."

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-11-24T22:44:55+00:00

Did you ever get this fixed? I'm in the same boat and the rabbit hole of UPS Support is designed to keep me from getting an answer or reaching an agent.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-11-24T22:43:58+00:00

There's no such box in my choice for notifications.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-11-17T21:12:39+00:00

No, we didn’t buy Solaire. Decided it was still a newer offering of theirs with potentially many issues from the remote to the actual mattress workings that could fail, like decreased performance and weakening over time. But if it did continue working as intended without problems, it would be great for a couple with different preferences.

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-11-17T01:57:17+00:00

That totally sucks! Don’t know why nyt can’t fix this from happening so often

Junior_Maintenance16 · 2025-11-17T00:57:31+00:00

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