Discussion:Will my 4 year old qualify?
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Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 30 October 2009 |
| Good lord!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574501253942115922.html?mod=djemEditorialPage And note how so many of various political stripes want to continue this program. | |
| 30 October 2009 | |
| My office turned away a client who came in wanting to file an amended return to claim the credit. The return was done by another CPA so we asked why isn't he going back to that CPA to do the amendment. He gave a line about the CPA being out of town. We looked at the return and there was mortgage interest deducted on Sch A. We asked about the nature of the home etc. To make a long story short the story kept changing. In the end we politely asked him to leave. | |
| October 31, 2009 | |
| That's just too much. Why don't the honest people get a break for once? | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 31 October 2009 |
| They are honest people, Natalie. They are just making an expansive reading of a law that probably no one in Congress ever dreamed would happen. The capacity of people to sink to the occasion has never been questioned by me. | |
| 31 October 2009 | |
| Human nature is also lazy and clever. So when Congress passes a well intentioned law both Rich and Poore will try to game it to their best advantage. Some use the phrase "most bang for the buck." So every rule has to be defended by all manner of regulation and if and buts... till understandibility is lost. So one is left with the black box approach: "Press the lever, see if cookie comes out." | |
| November 1, 2009 | |
| Honest maybe . . . just not ethical. Good point Eastern. | |
