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How to add third party designee in TurboTax? [SOLVED, Desktop version]

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Question. Can you explain step by step how i add how to add 3rd party designee in Turbotax? Answer. Sure, I can explain how to add a third party designee in TurboTax.  A third party designee is a person you authorize to answer questions and provide information regarding federal tax issues on your behalf. You can do that only in the Desktop installed program using Forms Mode. There is no question and answer steps for it. Here are the steps to

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Bitcoin tax issues, accounting and bitcoin inheritance

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Bitcoin is one of many “virtual currencies” out there. With its recent rise in popularity it is becoming increasingly more common, however, there are some tax issues that you should be aware of if you are considering purchasing or mining bitcoins: What happens when I sell bitcoins or when I die and my children inherit my bitcoins? The CFO’s Guide to Bitcoin, Part 2: Taxes and Accountinghttp://findaccountingsoftware.com/expert-advice/the-cfos-guide-to-bitcoin-part-2-taxes-and-accounting/These questions don’t always seem to have easy answers. But recent government announcements have

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E-file vs Mailing Taxes – Audit Risk Analysis

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E-file vs Paper filing for federal taxes Being a programmer and attorney, e-filing is not an attractive prospect to me: Every year I strive to be as complete and accurate as possible when filing my taxes. However, as a programmer, it is apparent that e-filing makes it immensely easy for the IRS to instantly run validation, algorithms, and analysis on your return with zero human intervention. Once your data is electronically transmitted to the IRS all of your data can be analyzed in

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Update Quicken 2015 to R5 for taxes

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Quicken has recently (3/24/2015) released their version R5 patch for Quicken 2015. If you like to have all your financial software up to date while doing taxes, you may want to backup and then perform the upgrade! There are a couple ways you can update, you can find info on both below. #1 Perform a “One Step Update” from the Tools menu in the application, after the update completes it should show you a notice about the new update: After

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Get Discover Bank tax documents online (1099 etc.)

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Tax time approaches! If you need a copy of your Discover Bank tax documents, you can find them here: link This is a very handy feature as you can download the tax documents at your convenience. However, I recommend keeping the paper copy in a safe place as well, because sometimes the financial sites go down just when you need them the most. Paper never fails you if you can find it 😉

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Tax notes

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https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2231912-need-help-regarding-cost-basis-for-a-1099-s-proceeds-from-real-estate-sale-city-reported-their-purchase-of-an-18-easement-to-extend-sewer-main-down-the-driveway-of-my-rental-property-to-irs-using-a-1099-s https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1772542-received-a-1099-s-for-road-right-of-way-permanent-easement-and-2-temporary-easements-how-should-i-enter-this https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2211264-i-have-a-1099-s-this-is-for-the-sale-of-land-right-of-way-to-a-utility-company http://www.portal.msue.msu.edu/objects/content_revision/download.cfm/revision_id.582335/workspace_id.580668/Oil%20&%20Gas%20Income%20Tax%20Consideration%20for%20Farm%20&%20Forest%20Lands.pdf/ http://www.aicpa.org/Publications/TaxAdviser/2014/march/Pages/Kebodeaux_mar2014.aspx  

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The best custom taxonomy plugin for WordPress? [SOLVED]

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I checked out a bunch of custom taxonomy plugins for WordPress. When it was all said and done my favorite plugin was: Custom Fields and Custom Post Types Management http://wordpress.org/plugins/types/The complete and reliable plugin for managing custom post types, custom taxonomy and custom fields. While it is a little hefty at ~6.8MB after uploading, it does the trick and is fully compatible with the latest WordPress version. Woot! 🙂

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