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Bathing & Grooming
Thanks for the response re grooming in assisted living. - rlw (Talk) 14:49, 7 December 2005 (CST)
Hello
Good luck on your next tax season. I love Hawaii. I visit in January usually in Maui every year before tax season starts for me. David
New Hawaii Group
Anuenue:
We're testing out a new sub-group here on TaxAlmanac for users who are in Hawaii, and we welcome you to join in. If you're interested, see Category:Hawaii User Group.
Thanks!
- Tim Doyle, TaxAlmanac Moderator 07:46, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
coffee?
Laura,
Where are you located? I work mainly with accounting issues and refer strictly tax clients to other professionals regularly. 03:04, 22 August 2006 (CDT)Natalie
Hawaii group
Tim has set up a Hawaii group page for us. We are able to add stuff about Hawaii including links to other sites. If you go to my user page, you'll be able to see the link. All you need to do to join it is add your name to the group. Please let Tim know what you think about the idea.
Hawaii group - add'l
I forgot to leave my name. 18:00, 20 April 2006 (CDT)~Natalie
I'm Sorry
Hi, I just want to say I'm sorry for calling you a tax bitch and starting that whole crazy rant. JHJackieHeart 10:58, 22 April 2006 (CDT)
Donation of Land to City of Henderson
If you are referring to the 409 acre MacDonald Ranch donation to the City of Henderson, the details on this deal were highly publicized in the Nevada Press. In that deal, the owners of the property realized significant capital gains from the sale of property to a Holding Company and significant charitable contribution deductions for the donation of other parcels to the City of Henderson. I believe that both, the donated property and the property sold, involved parcels of land from Section 32.
More on Henderson Donation
No, it would not be correct to zero out the gain on the sales. The sale of certain parcels was made to a holding company. The donation of other parcels was made to the City of Henderson.
The sale to the holding company involved different parcels of land than the donations to the City. The basis for the donated property would be completelty different than the basis for the property sold.
The MacDonald Joint Venture should have provided you with basis information regarding the sales. In addition, they should have provided you with an 8283 and formal appraisal for the donation.
Although I do not personally have any clients who were part of this deal, I did read an extensive article about this deal in one of the Las Vegas newspapers, and reviewed online property records to confirm my understanding of the deal.
Running Tax Prep From Home
Hi,
I came across one of you discussion where you mentioned running a tax prep business from home and was wondering if you could give me some advice on how to do this and maintain a professional appearance.
This will be my first year preparing taxes as an business, and I have been looking at storefront space (real expensive plus 3-5yr lease terms) & office suites (short term, cheaper but not very convienent) so my question is how do run your business from home, do clients come to your home or do you just pick their returns and drop off or mail back to them.
I would like to keep my start-up cost as low as possible but still be able to serve many customers, when you advertise do you put your home address or just a phone number and then have them fax,mail or pick up their taxes.
Any information or advice would be greatly apprecited.
Thanks in advance,
Shannon
Old accounts
I moved the contents of your old accounts to your user and user talk pages here, as you requested.
Aloha!
- Tim Doyle, TaxAlmanac Moderator - Talk to me 19:02, 17 December 2006 (CST)
Shannon's message
Here's how you can track down who left you a message...
1. Look at the comment they left for you here, and note the heading that they used. Shannon's message was titled " Running Tax Prep From Home".
2. Click on the history tab for this page and look down the list to find a change with the comment that they left. As you can see, "Shannon" was actually User:Txtaxguy.
3. You can click on the link to their user page from the history tab, then leave them a message back.
It's actually simpler than it sounds. I hope this helps!
Tim
Jamba juice?
I don't think you ever responded to my "coffee" message. Are you accepting tax clients. I'd like to meet with you and possibly refer business to you. Natalie 01:31, 21 January 2007 (CST)Natalie
Your note to Brian
I've sent an email off to Brian to make sure that he sees your message.
- Tim Doyle, TaxAlmanac Moderator - Talk to me 19:00, 7 February 2007 (CST)
purchasing tax clients
Hi,
I read your profile, very well written.
Can i ask you how you found tax clients to purchase and did the transition go successful? I have looke at a few websites who handle these types of transactions, seemed tough to find a good fit for a sole practitioner to buy.
How does it ususally work, you pay a percentage of the first few years fees to the seller ?
Thank you for your time
Will
Need help with a CA corp selling HI rental prop
Laura, I don't know if you've seen my post on the main forum. Is this something you can help me with? (Sorry, don't know how to do the links.) It's the HI apportionment schedules I'm lost with. What would be your fee? I'm feeling a little desperate right now. If you can help, you can call me at 800-477-6342 and I would be forever in your debt. Sandytilt53 11:42, 7 March 2007 (CST)
my location
I work out of my home in Hawaii Kai. I think when I signed up for this forum, I elected not to receive emails from members. You can always leave me a message on my user page, however.
I was wondering whether you would be able to help the land from CA who is working on a Hawaii corporate return. Perhaps she has already contacted you directly. Natalie 19:13, 7 March 2007 (CST)Natalie
..."sorry for calling you a tax bitch and starting"...
what was this all about?
Mileage expenses for police officers
Hi Laura,
Hope you get this message...
I'm looking at the W-2 for my 1st HPD client, and I'm not sure how to interpret the automobile mileage information.
--The "Total Mileage" reads "21,635 MI." --The "Official Mileage" reads "21,341 MI." --Car Allowance = $5,856 (Taxable); Non-taxable = $0
The client says most of her mileage is commuting to and from her home in Waipahu to the Kahuku station. But she apparently is on duty during the commute in the sense that she would help out stranded motorists, etc...
I researched whether she can take the standard mileage deduction for auto expenses, but I can't find anything on point. How are you handling these automobile expenses? Thanks!
Kengi (Bengoshi)
our "coffee" date
Here it is, another tax season. I've been turning away business. Are you accepting new clients?Natalie 02:32, 6 February 2008 (CST)Natalie
I didn't realize you worked in the arena of CPS. We definitely need to get together. Natalie 02:34, 6 February 2008 (CST)Natalie
Interested in a small research study? yields rewards!
I was wondering if you are interested in a study being done by a couple of my fellow students. We put together a test, and are hypothesis is that fresh out of college accounting degree students will not do as well as veteran accountants. I know it seems obvious that it would be so, but we have figured out what the percentage difference would be for each year of experience the veteran accountant/CPA/tax man or women over someone brand new to the business world. Are you interested in answering what should be, 20 easy tax questions? The man with the highest score receives a gift card to best buy.
comparison between EAs and CPAs
we need to keep the discussion polite, Rick has brought it to my attention in the past that I was a little strong on the same points you are now making strongly. Where we need to educate people is at the level of John Q. Public Consumer.
I do believe that most of the CPAs here on TA know (now) what an Enrolled Agent is. And I understand the tax experts who are CPAs cringing when EAs try to claim to 'all' be tax experts. There are many EAs who passed the test, but that doesn't mean I'd refer clients to them if they have no real-life experience. Similarly, there are many CPAs who may excel at accounting, but not at tax. For the most part, I think the CPAs know that. The point you are trying to make needs to be directed to the public. For that reason, I do belong to the NAEA, as that is the only organization that tries to promote us. Kevinh5
Accidental discussion?
I'm guessing that you didn't mean to start a new discussion about googling fees! I've removed it from the tax forum list for now (although it'll still show up in the "all topics" list), and can delete it altogether if you'd like.
Let me know,
Trillium 17:49, 14 January 2009 (CST)
Easily restored
I didn't delete it, I just removed it from the list of active discussions on the tax forum. The reason it appeared to be a duplicate is because your new discussion had little context, and within a few minutes, you had posted basically the same comment to an existing discussion. But I'll change it back to sort into the primary forum right now, and bump it back to the top.
Thanks for letting me know.
Trillium 23:55, 15 January 2009 (CST)
Point taken
Taxea, I apologize.
I truly did think I was helping out; your new discussion and your post to Discussion:Current_year_fees just seemed so similar. In no way did I think you were posting spam!!
And I see your point about how my initial question to you could be seen as asking you to justify your posts, and that was also not what I had intended. I wanted you to have a chance to say, yes, I did mean to start a new discussion, or no, I didn't. And I guess I was thinking about all the prior times people have posted a "partial" opening post (e.g., blank, or appearing to have been intended as a reply elsewhere), and how those posts seem to attract sarcastic comments - by moving it off of the primary tax forum listing temporarily, I was hoping to avoid that for you. But you're right, that is overstepping what I'm supposed to be doing here to help out. Thanks for the reminder - it is well taken.
Trillium 00:17, 16 January 2009 (CST)
tax prep in clients home
I have been thinking about going mobile. How does it work for you? Does it seem to be inconvenient? Thanks K Simmons
Spammers
Hi, Taxea -
We don't want to give any more "press" (or web-presence, in this case) to the spammers that get in. They're looking for attention, among other things, and the less they get the better, so it's probably not appropriate to post their names somewhere. We usually try to block the spammer and delete the spam links, and/or spam posts, before too many people see them, and then ignore the spammers - it's the best way to make them go away.
Yesterday's episode was a bit different in that it was partly an attempt to take down the site by posting the same thing over and over. The spammer, proofofemployment, put links about fake paychecks - and lots of other junk - on more than 50 existing discussions, and his name was the "last poster" for many of them. I wanted to get his name off of the front page of the tax forum, and other forums, which is why I posted those notes about discussions having been bumped by the spammer. Had it not been for the desire to replace his name with mine as "last poster" I probably wouldn't have said anything about the spam.
If you want to see one of his posts, though, you can still do so. Here's a link to one of the discussions he posted to. Click the "history" tab at the top of that page. That will show who posted, and when, and usually shows the first few words of each post. If you click the link for "18:19, 30 January 2009" it will show you what the discussion looked like at that point, before Tim Doyle reverted the spam. The spam post will be all the way at the bottom of the page.
You can do that in any discussion, if you're curious about whether revisions have been made. Click on the "history" tab, and use the compare buttons to see the diffferences between two times, or click on the time stamp for an old version to see what it looked like before. It can be very illuminating! (For those of us who are curious about what goes on behind the scenes, it can be a lot of fun, too.)
Trillium 22:04, 31 January 2009 (CST)
As an added thought to the above,
Please feel free to delete obvious SPAM posts as soon as you see them (just don't delete the entire thread of good discussion), being sure to notify either Trillium, myself, or Tim Doyle so that we can block the spammer from coming back again later. This method has been very effective in reducing SPAM and keeping the content quality up to the high standards that make TaxAlmanac such a great place to hang out.
If you need instruction on how to delete only one post (SPAM), either Trillium or I would be glad to teach you. Kevinh5
To delete SPAM
From the appropriate discussion thread, up at the top you will see a few tabs. Click the one marked 'edit this page'. That allows you to edit the things on that page.
You would then highlight the offending post (hold Ctrl key down while you mouse through the post, highlighting it - mine appears in a bluish tint), then hit the DELETE key. This deletes the highlighted text.
Then you have to hit SAVE PAGE at the bottom of the thread again. If you don't save the page, then your changes haven't been saved.
If you delete too much, you can go back to a prior version, copy and paste the deleted stuff back.
Often I go back to my own posts to make minor edits this way to correct spelling or to add working links. If you click on 'Recent changes' on the left, you can also see that CrowJD does this. From the HISTORY tab for each discussion, you can click on the prior version to see what has changed.
As far as the SSN lookup, I don't know what you mean 'collectively' do something.
Maybe you are looking for a link to that page again? I have never used it. Maybe there is a link in one of the prior discussions from last year.
Repetitive posts
Absolutely!!!! People need to just learn how to use the search or at least scan two days worth of threads and they will likely find their answers! I haven't figured out a nice way of telling them. Kevinh5
Did receive email
Thanks. I did receive your email. I have not contacted anyone yet. Have been busy taking care of business. In fact, this is the first time I've logged back on to this site in about a week. I appreciate your help.
I was wondering if I could talk to you about your EA "career". I just passed all 4 parts of the SEE. I have yet to submit the application. This is actually the second time I passed all parts. The first time was around 1993 when it was administered at the Federal Building on three consecutive days. Passed it the first time then too. However, I changed direction, career-wise. My brother-in-law had a very successful business in Maryland and had moved to Hawaii and started a business at that time. He got me on board as a partner. We had a great run and had a great time operating it.
I've always been an accountant and have been preparing taxes since 1991 as a small side business. Now I'm at a point where I want to get out of the corporate world and run my own business again, this time in the tax/accounting field. I just wanted to get some feedback from people in the field so I can determine which direction to go. I you have time to, please call me at 808-341-3248.
Mel Buted Newbee 14:58, 17 February 2009 (CST)
Posting
Goddamn you are prolific! Gunning for kevinh5?
TheTinCook 03:45, 6 March 2009 (CST)
Glad you like it...
Laura,
Glad you like the changes. If you remember, I wrote that last year. Since then, we got rid of most of the DIY'ers, so I've been meaning to change it. So when I saw what you wrote, I figured I would incorporate it.
Interesting about the slogan. Glad to know the origin, thanks.
TomTaocpa 07:49, 26 March 2009 (CDT)
About your suggestion
I wish I knew, Laura. Maybe that's something we should suggest to Tim. Personally, I've always felt it should be required before you start posting. I know I did put something up before I started posting. I didn't want people to think I am that stupid. I am sure they still do. 
TomTaocpa 13:56, 28 March 2009 (CDT)
Changes...
That was a good change made a few weeks back. Kevin & Trillium pushed Tim for it if I recall correctly. But a bunch of us have been pounding on Tim since last year for a resolution to the DIY issue.
I think we seem to have gotten rid of the DIY'ers as Death&Taxes points out. I do believe you are right and I do believe you should be required at least a minimum of information on your profile page. Your first name, CPA, EA, CTP or whatever, years of experience is just fine as far as I am concerned. That should be enough.
What do you think?
TomTaocpa 10:14, 29 March 2009 (CDT)
About a certain poster...
Laura,
You had also been mentioned a certain contributor to this board in some messages. Take a look at this discussion: Discussion:Spouses of tax preparers
I think everything you need to know about them is summed up in that discussion's post. If you read their response (don't look too far, it's right near the top). It's just a hunch.
TomTaocpa 09:49, 30 March 2009 (CDT)
I see....
Where you some more sand kicked in your face!
As I said, I know where it comes from and I don't pay attention. It's just loneliness, I suppose. They are a good poster and as I said everything I needed to know was summed up in that post.
It's like with me. I don't take myself seriously, I really never did. But last year, when I was diagnosed with MS, I was blindsided. I have to admit I changed. I am not bitter mind you, but I struggled the last year. For a while, things to me weren't as funny as they used to be. But with time, I've tried to get back my sense of humor and I have mostly. It's hard when you constantly are fighting fatigue, your head hurts, your eyes can't see as well as they used to, but I look at it this way: they are people in far worse shape than me. I am grateful that I still have my family around, even though my mom died in January of this year.
So, that's my sob story. Sorry, but I just don't let people like that worry me anymore. I've got other things to worry about. I know you do as well
TomTaocpa 18:53, 30 March 2009 (CDT)
mfs VS hoh
If she lives with her husband for any part of the second half of the year, she cannot file HOH. If she doesn't want to file MFJ, then her only legal choice is MFS. She could divorce him ... Kevinh5
Tax bills - website
Here's the home page http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/. Last year they added RSS feeds to the bills, so now it's really easy to track when changes are made. Under the "bills" section, you can pull up a bill, and then when you see "RSS," click and add that feed to your browser.Natalie 02:25, 10 April 2009 (CDT)Natalie
Thanks
Thanks for e-mailing that guy. Although I have to admit, "no response" may actually be an appropriate response in this case. (Hear me out; I know that might sound crazy!) He/she has probably already signed up with a new user name - that's the fastest way to change your user name on this site - and has possibly even added some profile information for that new user name. We'll never know that it's the same person who originally signed up with a long e-mail address as a user name, and there's no particular reason for us to know.
As it happens, Riley just answered the question they asked, which is probably a bonus as far as they're concerned. They were probably willing to abandon that question and get the answer elsewhere in order to make a clean start here. (That's one way I might have looked at it, if I'd been the one to make the mistake they made.)
But in any case, it's a good thing if they're aware that there were reactions and responses to their question, especially now that Riley has posted, and your e-mail to them will help make sure that happens, so thanks for taking the time.
Trillium 22:30, 14 April 2009 (CDT)
Hi there!
Just wondering if you are still out there and how your summer went?
TomTaocpa 19:34, 31 August 2009 (CDT)
Hawaii "local" tax return
Taxea, Since you are in Hawaii I am hoping that you can help me with a question I posed to the Hawaii User Group. I won't repeat it here, but I would appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks, Joan TB Joan TB 16:16, 5 October 2009 (CDT)
