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Harry, in your profile, you sound alot like Harry Bosch, retired LAPD detective from the Michael Connely novels.
The New Tax Guy
Last time I was in LA, I was the one getting fingerprinted.
And it's "Connelly" with two L's...
Harry B.
I'm new here and getting acclamated.
When I saw your post, you mentioned Noon, Fridge, PBR...Peanut Butter and ?. No. PBR! I'm ready for my St. Pauli Girl(this feels like a sixer night. SkipChapp
JoA copyright
Info about the JoA copyright is on their site - basically, it wouldn't be a good idea to just post tons of stuff from JoA (or any other journal) without attribution and probably permission (so if you know of someone who has, please let me know!). On the other hand, most of the JoA articles are available online and therefore easy enough for you to link to, if you would like to refer someone to information in a particular issue.
Thx for asking,
Trillium 21:04, 8 March 2009 (CDT)
I think there is were I can leave a message`
Harry,
I appreciated your comments on the 1099-B MetLife discussion, just wanted you to know that!
TexCPA 22:17, 23 March 2009 (CDT)
Fly in the ointment
Harry, Enjoying your answers to various posts and your humor.) Thanks especially for answering mine.) Your mention of PBR is the second one I've seen this morning on the forum. By the way, in reference to your comment about the fly in ointment... as long as the fly is in the ointment and not the PBR, we're good! Thanks again for your help and humor Anchorman 12:09, 6 April 2009 (CDT)
rent from one pocket to another
Harry, You stated in a post that " The IRS has a position about paying rent from one pocket to the other... ". Where can I find more on this? Thanks Anchorman 17:15, 21 April 2009 (CDT)
My user page
Harry, I am just curious why you have been changing my user page. Natalie 22:47, 25 April 2009 (CDT)Natalie
Was your response to the discussion regarding the retired asset tongue-in-cheek?Natalie 22:51, 25 April 2009 (CDT)Natalie
My user page was changed to show a sample format that really never got off the ground. Kevin changed it back. I guess that's when part of it was doubled up. Thanks for trying to fix it.Natalie 02:22, 27 April 2009 (CDT)Natalie
New fish to fry
Harry, I've got a new problem and maybe even new fish to fry on that potenially amend-able 1120S. Can you take a look at my recent post "S Corp Losses Exceeds Basis" and steer me into the clear? Thanks for all your help... Anchorman 14:18, 1 June 2009 (CDT)
Daburgerman
Hi, Harry, I was going to move Daburgerman's questions to the consumer forum, along with the answers that addressed it, and then I noticed that you've actually deleted his posts, your posts, and JR's too, from the discussion S CORP--Loan from Shareholder vs. Capital Contribution?. So I figured I'd better ask you what was up before I posted the same stuff in a new discussion elsewhere.
PS - Your talk page is missing the standard template that lets people "click here" to add a message for you. If you're happy to have it gone, that's cool, I know others have removed theirs as well. But if you'd like me to put it back on there for you, please let me know, as I can.
Thanks,
Trillium 11:26, 8 June 2009 (CDT)
Editing to add - ah, just found the new discussion you created for Daburgerman's question. So like minds think alike, or whatever that saying is. Although yours is still in the tax forum - presumably because you'd like to start a dialog about the tutorial in your last post, there? Ooops, also on re-reading Daburgerman's profile I see he says he's working in tax - I'd gotten the wrong impression from his questions ["Is there two types" (sic) Aargh!!]. So no worries. My offer to "fix" your talk page still stands.
Trillium 11:34, 8 June 2009 (CDT)
IRC Code spacing
You are completely correct, the formatting of that block of Sec. 280A wasn't at all well-formatted with that extra spacing. Interestingly enough, that's the exact kind of formatting problem that the wiki designers were trying to avoid by ignoring "carriage returns" at the end of lines; unfortunately, whatever your source was for that block of text must have been a pdf or something else with hard-coded line breaks that the wiki actually complied with, so when we really needed the artificial line breaks to be ignored, they weren't. Hmmmph.
I'm curious about where you pulled that from, Harry, as here's the mess I get if I do a standard copy and paste from Sec. 280A on TA into a TA discussion post, i.e., no line spacing at all, consistent with the TA policy of removing single carriage returns under the assumption they're unintended (ironic, isn't it!):
- (3) Rental to family member, etc., for use as principal residence (A) In general A taxpayer shall not be treated as using a dwelling unit for personal purposes by reason of a rental arrangement for any period if for such period such dwelling unit is rented, at a fair rental, to any person for use as such person's principal residence. (B) Special rules for rental to person having interest in unit (i) Rental must be pursuant to shared equity financing agreement Subparagraph (A) shall apply to a rental to a person who has an interest in the dwelling unit only if such rental is pursuant to a shared equity financing agreement. (ii) Determination of fair rental
- In the case of a rental pursuant to a shared equity financing agreement, fair rental shall be determined as of the time the agreement is entered into and by taking into account the occupant's qualified ownership interest. (C) Shared equity financing agreement For purposes of this paragraph, the term shared equity financing agreement means an agreement under which - (i) 2 or more persons acquire qualified ownership interests in a dwelling unit, and (ii) the person (or persons) holding 1 or more of such interests - (I) is entitled to occupy the dwelling unit for use as a principal residence, and (II) is required to pay rent to 1 or more other persons holding qualified ownership interests in the dwelling unit. (D) Qualified ownership interest For purposes of this paragraph, the term qualified ownership interest means an undivided interest for more than 50 years in the entire dwelling unit and appurtenant land being acquired in the transaction to which the shared equity financing agreement relates. <I added the indentation but made no other changes.>
You must have pulled from a different source? Or did you pull from TA and use paste special? Or maybe just a different browser than I use...interesting. Maybe you can take comfort from the fact that what you pasted is less messed up than what I'd have pasted!
...Anyhow, it is interesting learning more about the idiosyncracies of the site and helpful to see it through others' eyes. Maybe I'll add your bit of the pasted Sec. 280A code to that help page (or unhelpful page, I think you might have felt) about line spacing protocol as an example of what could happen if unnecessary line breaks weren't ignored by the wiki software. Even though it's kind of a false example, since the line breaks in that block were probably hard-coded, it is a good visual. Would that be dishonest of me??
Trillium 17:21, 21 June 2009 (CDT)
Indenting
Not quite sure what you're asking. "Extra" double spaces are probably caused by some coding in the text you copy/pasted. Look for things like <br> or even <p> and take them out.
Also, indenting by using the # or * symbols will only affect the single following paragraph. So any carriage returns that were in there to begin with (like at the end of a line copied from pdf) will mess up your indenting. I often have to go through stuff I copy in (like Rev Procs or Notices) and just combine lines to fix this. It's a problem with the source of the text having hardcoded carriage returns (those, unfortunately, are invisible to the naked eye until you realized they've forced a double line).
One other thing you can do to indent is use the colon (:) at the start of the line. That'll indent the paragraph that follows. It doesn't line up exactly with the indenting of the # and * symbols, but it can be useful for indenting the "next" paragraph.
Sorry for rambling; since I wasn't quite sure what you were trying to accomplish I figured I'd give you lots of info in hopes it solves your problem.
Trillium 11:49, 2 July 2009 (CDT)
edited to add:
Take a look at the post I just added to your options discussion (look at it in edit mode to see what I did). To make it display like that, I had to (1) remove the hardcoded but invisible carriage returns that were breaking up the two lines in part (B) and also between the first line of the text, the title, and the line introducing the two points A and B, and then (2) I added the indentation symbol, the colon, at the very start of the lines for (A) and (B). Note that if I hadn't gotten rid of that hardcoded carriage return that was splitting B into two lines, only the first of the two lines would have been indented (quite silly looking!).
To circle back to our discussion about TA's default on carriage returns from weekend before last - this (your original display problems in that discussion) is the very display behavior TA is trying to avoid in discussion posts. Think about how awful it would be if we had this kind of messy display every time some old-fashioned person hit the enter/return key at the end of each line!
So the TA policy of ignoring extra returns actually doesn't go far enough for you - in that you'd also like it to find the kind that come in with a copy/paste and get rid of those as well!! (Of course I realize it also goes too far at other times.... oh well.)
Oh - and I forgot to say above that you can do successive indentation by adding another colon - one colon, one indentation, two colons, jumps in twice as far, three....etc.
Hi Harry, I saw that you tried to contact me, but when I checked. I did not see any messages. If you want you can email me at genskitty@att.net.
Thanks,
Gen
Surgery
It's always preferable to wait until the patient is fully anesthetized prior to performing major surgery... <g> (an analogy that is perhaps stretched to the limit, but in the case I'm using it to say that once a discussion is kind of active I try to leave it alone until it dies down a bit, unless things get really screwy). Hope to reduce confusion; not sure I always succeed.
Anyhow - you wanted me to play with that 2008-1 discussion yesterday - I assume that at least you want me to get the "please post your follow-up questions somewhere else" notice back at the bottom again, and as I was reading it, I saw a few DIY questions scattered throughout, and of course, the guy who bumped it, Sukhvir, may well be DIY, as well. So were you also indicating that I should find someplace to move the DIY posts, and if so, would you consider Sukhvir to be a non-tax-pro, too? (Just wanting confirmation of my opinion, before I go to town.)
Thanks,
Trillium 16:08, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
"Suture self"
That was so good I had to wait a few days before implementing it. Suit yourself, indeed!
So now I've tidied up the pre-"Notice 2008-1" discussion a bit, and have moved the last series of posts over to an existing consumer discussion. Have to admit that the fit there is somewhat awkward, but I didn't want to create a new discussion and pop this guy's questions back to the top of the index for another couple of days, so... this is the one I found: Discussion:Consumer Questions: Payroll accounting, S Corp, s/h benefits. I still have to find a home for some of the older DIY posts/related responses that I pulled out of the "mother ship" discussion, but there'll be time for that over the weekend; if I find a really good place, I might move that newest series of posts again to get all of the transplanted posts together.
edited to add: Found a good place to move the 2006-2007 DIY posts, and decided to put the new guy's posts there, too: Discussion:S Corp s/h health insurance, paid by s/h. So disregard the link I originally left above.
I did leave a copy of Dblchai's post over on the old discussion; thought that was a nice link, why not have it in both places.
Have a good weekend,
Trillium 03:06, 22 August 2009 (CDT) - edited Trillium 13:27, 22 August 2009 (CDT)
Typos in discussion titles
I've been enjoying that one - descendents, decedents, what's the diff, right? Here's a word that could mean either, as you like. To fix typos like that, FYI, you open the discussion, go to the "move" tab at the top of the page, and a screen comes up showing the old title and providing a place to type a new title (it defaults to same as the old name, which is convenient for typos, as you can just fix a letter here or there). The only things to keep in mind are (1) make sure you retain the "Discussion:" part at the front of the name, and (2) if you move/rename a discussion while somebody's posting to it, their post might go to the old discussion - mostly people figure that out and repost, but I sometimes try not to rename at times when lots of people are likely to be reading/posting.
If you haven't beaten me to it, I'll fix this typo once I've run through the discussions I haven't read yet today - didn't have much time to spend here until now.
Trillium 23:29, 25 September 2009 (CDT)
Added a section to the Search Help page
Good question that you asked about searching for "never ever" - I think you asked it before, too; sorry for not addressing it until now. Yeah, the search engine lies to you if you search for words that are too common. It says there's nothing that matches, but it really means that there are too many things that might match and it doesn't feel like looking for them for you. Unfortunately, glaring at the screen doesn't have quite the same effect as glaring at a wayward employee who's trying to slack off.
I've added a section to the Hints and Tips on How to Search on TaxAlmanac article to address this - to say that it happens and show a way to get around it while still using the same search terms. But in your case, you'd be better off switching your search terms from "never ever" to "RE in a corp" - which will exclude many discussions that might use the phrase "real estate in a corporation" instead of the acronym/ abbreviation, but will still at least get you some of them. (Notably, the very first one includes the phrase "never ever" right in the two-line recap in the search results!)
Trillium 14:24, 28 September 2009 (CDT)
Here's the new paragraph:
Limitations when searching for "common" words
If your search terms aren't specific enough, you may well get the "No articles contain your search terms" screen even when there actually are discussions that include your search terms. This tends to happen when you are searching for common words that the search engine ignores (like "never") or words/numbers of three characters or less, which this search engine is not capable of handling. If this happens to you and you want to try your search another way, click on "advanced search" (the link just above the yellow search box to the left of the screen) and use the search box at the bottom of the page - where it says "Search this webpage using Google." You can also open your preferred search engine in a separate window or tab and limit its search to taxalmanac.org by including "site:taxalmanac.org" (without the quotes) in your search terms.
Not solutions, exactly...
The frustrating part is that solutions to many of the problems you bring up probably do exist, they just can't be implemented by us (either they don't work in the wiki format, or they're programmer decisions/tasks). So what I am actually providing would be "workarounds" - ways to try to get you (you, me, and all the rest) to not be as bothered by the problems, as opposed to ways to fix the problems. Oh well - most of life is a work-around for one thing or another, if you let yourself think about it. Trillium
Cincinnati
Nope, not anywhere near Cincinnati, although I have been there, or close to there, before, as I had some relatives attending Miami of Ohio in years long past. (That's quite the little party school - or did I only see one corner of it?)
The nowiki thing is good for when you want to tell someone to sign off their messages with 4 tildes (e.g., ~~~~) without actually ending up with your own signature in the middle of your sentence when what you wanted was 4 tildes. Or anytime you want the magic codes to show instead of the result they are intended to produce. Otherwise, as you found, it does nothing or just mashes things up a bit.
Trillium 16:59, 1 October 2009 (CDT)
Answers
I am always glad when you are on the job, I know I only have a 1% chance to disagree. Thanks for your excellence comments on point. I also thank you for correcting me evry time I need correction, which is way to often.
RoyDaleOne 10:26, 10 October 2009 (CDT)
Thanks for the edit attempt
Hey Harry,
Thank you for the assist with the bolding. It looks like your attempt to put the bolding in the desired place met with only partial success. I think it is a result of the bolding occuring inside quotations, and in text that contains ... in it so it gets parsed weirdly.
PVCC-CCIFP 21:22, 29 October 2009 (CDT)
