Likwid

You may want to post more information than ".45 only" and "I don't like composite guns"... IE: are you saying 45 only because you're a 45 snob or because you honestly believe it has the best expansion and is worth any sacrifice in weight, stack, etc etc? Based off the information you've provided you have a choice of 1911 or a 1911.

So here's a big thing... it applies to lots of stuff. If you're not a specialist, you have no business doing it yourself. Folks that have no marketing or business experience, have no business to do their own marketing and business plan. Same token, I'm not a tax expert, I'm willing to pay someone to answer my questions, I'm not looking for someone to fill out TurboTax for me. Got this from MSN Money The key is, I'm not paying a person to fill out the forms with the numbers I hand them, I'm looking for advice on several items, but of the most important, using my home office and how it effects everything else. If you check out TurboTax and look under the home office deductions (or self employed) you'll notice it's VERY vague and can be difficult to manage, especially the pieces about depreciation of assets. One of the first things my guy brought up was depreciation and how taking it now could hurt a tax free sale later... TurboTax isn't providing that information to you, or it's burried in their Help and Common Questions by someone that posted a reply. The key here, I'm not keen on spending a "lot of time" trying to figure out the best situation when the guy I use has been doing this for over 30 years. Additionally, I'm paying for him to tell me what I need to do in 2010 to ensure that I get the most money back next return... how much in donations, how much I SHOULD spend on my home office (should I buy a new desk for $1,000 because it will get me $1,500 back at the end of the year), that kind of stuff.

I'll do that for sure. I did the returns myself 2 times already and got nearly identical results between HRBlock and TurboTax... so if my CPA comes back with the same thing I'll know it was a waste of money. Plus I'll also be able to reverse engineer what he did to see how it'd work in TT.

CPA for me... but yeah, I guess a lot of people assosciate that as someone at HR Block that just asks you the questions.

remember when "harassing" someone was punching them, shoving them, ringing their doorbell and running? Now you just call them a name... whatever happened to "sticks and stones"

old news back when I was her age if you complained for being harassed you got made fun of. Kids these days are too fluffy in their marshmallow world.

what? Oooooooo that was a typo, I could see how someone might get the wrong idea! But feel free to answer Pauly

Is Pauly drinking a Cosmo?

So first, that's what I did the last 2 years, but there are a lot of things you need to be aware of when filing married, with a mortgage where it's possible you may need to file separately. But there are a lot of what-ifs and things to be aware of. For example, you say you always deduct your tax prep software, you can only deduct tax prep if it equals 2% of your AGI... assuming you pay $60 for the software that would mean your income is $3,000... which might explain why you wolf down those $1 steaks so fast In terms of filing separately, how do I spread our mortgage across our filings? Do I take the majority, does my wife, or do we spread it? Since out combined AGI puts us in a different bracket than we would filing individually, does it make more sense to apply our deductions on her return to drop her down a bracket, or use them on mine to try and get me down to another bracket. Secondly, I use a CPA, I'm not talking about going to HRBlock or some Liberty Tax Services bullshit.

3 W-2s, work from home, municipality taxing was screwed up part of the year, mortgage (including the work from home and depreciation), ended vehicle lease, about 5 1099-ints... and the wife and I have nearly identical income, so we have to look at filing separately or filing together..... which means paying for TurboTax twice... and such.... Plus there's a lot of deductions TurboTax and HRBlock show that we are right on the borderline of being able to take them (but because of our income they may only be applied if we separate our filings)

So quick question, R6 it would be cool if you added this poll to the thread.... how many folks are using a professional vs filing yourself? This is my first year with a complex filing and I need to use a pro... but it costs

Welcome! Nice to have even more NEO folks! Ride with you soon

Bump for April 26th, I'll be shooting for the Orange day (monday) unless someone here needs me on Tuesday as well. I'll post my expected schedule in my first post

wtf, you buy in bulk from Sam's club?

So the bald dude was the black smoke all along?

Well, much like a bazillion years ago, I'm fucking lost...

I'm guessing his wife blocked key words... apparently 1000 has a fetish for redface tongue rolleye wink porn.

Amazing man, and terrifying. I gotta admit, even with my ADHD I read every word of that.

LOL, I guess that's what you get for using IE. FF doesn't show red x's, it just doesn't show broken images... but still I loaded her up in IE and I don't see anything. http://www.ohio-riders.com/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001 Do you get any red x's there? If so which smilies?

I haven't watched Lost since a bazillion years ago but I'm going to tune in for this season just to see all the fucking answers.

You know what really kills bug reports, not posting any details more than "Hey, some shit isn't working and other shit is!" lol owned

Why don't you make like a banana and leave!

Just checked it out at home.... I had a ton of people around the cube today so I didn't want to keep scrolling madly when I saw nipples LOL This is just an absolutely amazing ride.... amazing pictures, amazing story, and amazing experience!

I gotta say, the 70-200 is a sharp lens, and that ultrasonic motor is amazing.... but I just don't see the difference... could just be I don't know what I'm looking for in what's wrong... or maybe in the given situation (work lighting) you wouldn't be able to notice a difference anyway. I just compared 3 shots I took today, 1 with 24-70, 1 with 70-200, and 1 with 75-300 and I just don't see major differences.