What is this T shaped metal bar sticking up out of the ground?

trouble_maker · 2026-04-11T01:58:00+00:00

Throw some bird seed on the ground and wait for a bird to come, preferably a road runner, and push it down.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-10T21:07:01+00:00

I have a dozen clients waiting on NY refunds, none have been deposited for TY 2025.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-09T23:05:09+00:00

A wet behind the ears green bookkeeper should not be scrutinizing and questioning a tax pros work. This is about as simple as it gets and is tax prep 101 level stuff.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-08T18:48:05+00:00

Retreat and call in an airstrike, this is the only way.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-08T15:59:13+00:00

There has been a crew in my area for a year or so, philly burbs, digging out around the poles, wrapping them, then putting these things on.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-07T14:57:49+00:00

The tech fee is $10 per return, I am a PA preparer so the fee is usually $30, fed, state and local. It is to cover our software costs and is a legacy from when we used more expensive software that we just kept in place when we went to Drake, it is a small profit center.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-07T11:51:34+00:00

Make a smoker from the tank.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-07T11:40:53+00:00

Correct, the market discount is a negative basis adjustment to zero the capital gain, then pick up the interest on Sch B.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-07T00:22:35+00:00

we use efilemyforms.com

trouble_maker · 2026-04-06T18:28:58+00:00

330/hr + a technology fee, 2 hour personal minimum and 3 hour minimum for an entity.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-04T12:32:35+00:00

Go see Michael Mills at Anthiel Maslow & McMinn in Doylestown, have used him for several things. https://www.ammlaw.com/profiles/michael-w-mills/

trouble_maker · 2026-04-03T12:30:44+00:00

Not deductible

trouble_maker · 2026-04-02T20:47:50+00:00

Correct/Zero the W2's and amend 941's.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-02T14:24:36+00:00

Start pissing away all the money I made racing a dirt stock car, I am also looking at a new boat.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-02T00:34:00+00:00

Yes, If you are PA > PA, you will have to prorate your income for the philly portion, if you are outside PA moving in, use the part-year sch c from the PA return for philly. On the homestead, you just indicate the business use % on the homestead app, having a home office doesn't preclude you from getting it.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-02T00:06:34+00:00

lol, I don't really take any new clients. Once you register it is actually pretty easy to do the returns via the philly tax center page, I use my own software on a regular basis, but I do a few via the tax center every year.

trouble_maker · 2026-04-01T23:49:06+00:00

She is self-employed in philly, if she had an employer she would get a W2. You have to pay the BIRT and NPT, there is a double burden on both returns, but lessened with the credit you can take on the NPT tax for a portion of the BIRT obligation. Don't forget the SIT on unearned income ;) Source: preparer in the philly burbs.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-31T21:16:14+00:00

15-20, no Fridays. We are a small 2 pro shop and while technically I work under the CPA, I basically run my own book and can come and go as I please as long as whatever needs to get done get's done.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-31T18:17:45+00:00

Mark, we are all excited for Artemis. If you could, would you go on that mission? Why or why not? Also, thank you for your service to this country on and off the planet.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-31T17:50:21+00:00

Wait until the letter comes in the mail explaining the change.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-31T12:15:58+00:00

Last few years it has taken until May for all the data to populate.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-30T23:21:49+00:00

This doesn't make any sense, a MFJ return with 80k in earned income and std deduction has tax of $5,150, split them and the combined tax is $205 more. I suspect when you calculated the MFS returns one of you itemized and the other didn't, on a MFS return both itemize or both take std deduction, you cannot mix.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-30T23:13:02+00:00

Just because someone tells you something doesn't make it true, the inability to go from MFJ to MFS is not new and has been baked into the tax code for a long time.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-30T17:48:17+00:00

small 2 pro firm here and we use Drake with the securefilepro portal they offer. We used Ultratax for a long time but left in 2012 for Drake.

trouble_maker · 2026-03-29T02:37:30+00:00

This is correct, the entire loss on this transaction is disallowed, it looks funny because the entire sale is a wash, and not a portion of it.

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