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From: terry.bunch@tfd.coplex.com (Terry Bunch) 
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
Subject: Re: Turbotax, TaxCut
Date: 9 Jan 93 15:26:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ky/In PC User's Group - Louisville, KY - 502-423-8654
Reply-To: terry.bunch@tfd.coplex.com (Terry Bunch) 


DCP>     Either  you  have something set up incorrectly, or else you didn't use
   >the same Turbotax that  I  used.   I'm  running Windows 3.1 and using an HP
   >Laserjet printer, and my forms came out looking  almost  exactly  like  the
   >preprinted  IRS forms with none of the problems that you mention.  I didn't
   >do anything special  to  get  good  printouts -- just followed the Turbotax
   >installation instructions.

I agree.  I have the Turbotax package for this year and it works fine
with my dot matrix printer.
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Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
Subject: Re: Social Security for non-citizens
Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:16:39 GMT


In article <9301112025.AA24306@oodis01.hill.af.mil>, rdyreng@oodis01.hill.af.mil (Russell I. Dyreng;OO-ALC/LILEP) writes:
>Non-citizens also have the ability to become citizens at a later point
>in time.  Should a person be allowed to live and work in this country
>for a number of years and be shielded from paying SS taxes (based on
>being a non-citizen), and then as they approach age 65, become a
>citizen and reap the benfits of a system into which they haven't paid?
>
>I am in no way suggesting that this is the motivation behind your
>posting.  I am merely pointing out that to do so would leave the
>system open to yet another potential source of abuse.
>
>Russ

You may classify all legal working people in this country as:
1) natural born citizens
2) naturalized citizens
3) permenant resindets (not citizens yet)
4) aliens (e.g. F1, H1, ... visas)

Groups 1) to 3) all pay tax the same way, no matter Fed., state, local
or SS.  Group 4) is the one we are discussing.  They don't really
posses any "ability" to become citizens as they please.  Only U.S. may
grant that residence.  I think you meant "potential" to become
resident/citizen.  I don't think you would consider it fair to tax on
potential though our politicians think otherwise.

SS benefit is supposedly based on how much one has contributed into it
before.  (The formula is TOP, TOP, top secret that SS won't tell
anyone.) Also, if one never contributes into SStax, be it citizen or
resident, one can't get any SS benefits.  E.g. I work at a State
College that is in the State pension system.  I am exampted from the
SStax (don't envy me, the state is ripping 8% from my paycheck with NO
ceiling.)  I have zero earning credit with SS and I can't draw any
security checks from it.

If an alien becomes a U.S. resident at age 64.75, contributes
one quarter earning to SStax, thinking he may rake it in big, dream
on.  He may get couple pennies a month if SS is not bankrupt yet.
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: jay@panasonicfa.com (Jay Peng)
Subject: IRS taxes publications index
Keywords: tax
Organization: Panasonic 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:21:57 GMT

Hi,
	
	I am wandering where I can find the complete list of IRS taxes publications( includeing their title ) on the Internet. Any hint is appreciated. Please
email me your info.

	Thanks.
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From: jms@vision.sarnoff.com (Jerry Shapiro x2420)
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
Subject: Re: Can medical insurance be treated as a medical expense?
Date: 4 Jan 93 13:35:39 GMT
Reply-To: jms@vision.sarnoff.com
Organization: David Sarnoff Research Center

I think you can have this deducted from your paycheck BEFORE taxes.

Jerry
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
Subject: Re: Taxes on Gifts
Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:05:32 GMT


In article <1993Jan8.140151.401@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, ov@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Olaf Vancura) writes:
>A couple of questions on gift taxes.  Does the giver or receiver potentially
>pay taxes on monetary gifts?  And, is there some maximum below which the
>gift is tax free to both?  Does the IRS consider the sum of all gifts to/from 
>an individual in determining taxes, or is each gift considered separately?

Currently, anyone can give anyone for any reason (or no reason) up to
$10,000 per person per year.  The receivers do not need to report it
as income and/or pay tax for it.  The giver does not need to pay tax
on giving out gift per se; he/she CANNOT deduct the gift amount either.

Now, one can still give more than $10,000 a year to one person.  Again,
no tax for the receiver.  But the giver has to file a report to IRS
reporting the exceeding amount and pay tax.  There are other estate
tax consequence too.  You should get the IRS publication on "Estate
and gift tax".  They are free from IRS (800-TAX-FORM).
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
Subject: $5k tax deduction on 1992 homes?
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:01:56 GMT

On January 20th of last year, President Bush talked about getting a 
$5k tax credit for people buying homes in 1992.  Did this ever become
a reality?

allen
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Re: Taxes on Gifts
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:49:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.140151.401@head-cfa.harvard.edu> ov@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Olaf Vancura) writes:
>A couple of questions on gift taxes.  Does the giver or receiver potentially
>pay taxes on monetary gifts?  And, is there some maximum below which the
>gift is tax free to both?  Does the IRS consider the sum of all gifts to/from 
>an individual in determining taxes, or is each gift considered separately?

The gift is not taxable to the receiver.  It might or might not be
taxable to the donor.

A gift to a spouse of any amount is not taxable.

A gift to a qualified charitible organization is not taxable, but
the amount which may be deducted from income taxes varies.

A gift to someone else is not taxable unless it is over $10,000 in
any calendar year.  The amount above $10,000 must be reported and,
if applicable, a tax may be due from the donor.

You may give any number of people gifts of less than $10,000.
A married couple may each give $10,000 to anyone.
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus)
Subject: Re: IRS taxes publications index
Keywords: tax
Organization: Taligent, a little subsidiary of two really big companies.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:41:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.232157.12812@panasonicfa.com> jay@panasonicfa.com (Jay Peng) writes:
>Hi,
>	
>	I am wandering where I can find the complete list of IRS taxes publications( includeing their title ) on the Internet. Any hint is appreciated. Please
>email me your info.

Call 1-800-TAX-FORM.  Ask for publication 910.  Really, there IS a
world out there besides the Internet ... :-)
--
-- Christophe

"Bad analogy!  No biscuit!"
From: glmead@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
Subject: "AM-TAX" for the PC request
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:10:11 MST

Does anyone out there know of the shareware program for doing
taxes that is called "AM-TAX"?  I hear that it is a pretty
fair program for doing you fed taxes.  Is there an ftp site
somewhere that it can be downloaded from?

Any info or a copy of the program would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Gary
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: rdetweil@boi.hp.com (Richard Detweiler)
Subject: Is This Worth an Amended Tax Return?
Summary: Small error in '91 depreciation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:22:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett Packard

Hi all,

I put a residential property into service as a rental 
in November of '91 (out of necessity - not profit 
potential.  But that's another story).  I filled out
the IRS Form for depreciation last year and in reviewing it 
in preperation for filing this year, I noticed I made an
error in the calculation for depreciation.

My mistake was including the value of the land in with the
value of the property when calculating my basis for the 
property.  This resulted in an approximate $80 overstatement
of the depreciation for the property.

So my questions:  How do I inform the IRS? File an amended tax
return?  Am I going to be liable for penalties and interest on
the tax I didn't pay on $80?  Do I need to file a new depreciation 
form this year showing the correct basis for the property?  And
finally, does this type of thing flag you for an audit?

Thanks in advance,

Dick Detweiler : rdetweil@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
From: bbenowit@telesciences.com (Barry D Benowitz)
Subject: Treatment of Class Action Suit Settlement
Summary: Is the money taxable, as what
Keywords:  lawsuit
Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:14:36 GMT

This year my wife was asked to join a Class Action Suit about Stock Price
Manipulation. There was a settlement agreed to with my wife recieving a
proportional amount based on the number of shares she owned.

The IRS has issued a letter ruling saying that this is not ordinary income
but that there may be capital implications (my paraphrase).

The settlement represents the difference between the price recieved on the
open market and the price the company was paying to private individuals.

So, how would you suggesting treating this? Is it income for the year the
stock sale took place? Is it capital gains for the year the stock sale took
place?

Is it income or capital gains for this year?

Barry D. Benowitz
EMail:	bbenowit@telesciences.com (...!pyrnj!telesci!bbenowit)
Phone:	+1 609 866 1000 x354
Snail:	Telesciences CO Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ, 08057-1177


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Phone:	+1 609 866 1000 x354
Snail:	Telesciences CO Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ, 08057-1177
From: ojvind@chagall.cns.caltech.edu (Ojvind Bernander)
Newsgroups: misc.writing
Subject: NEA
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:53:59 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: chagall.cns.caltech.edu

Supposedly, the National Endowment for the Arts gives out scholarships
so that budding writers and other artists can quit their jobs for a bit
and spend all their time creating.  Does anybody know what the rules
are and where to apply?

-- Ojvind
email:  ojvind@cns.caltech.edu

Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: rye@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Rye Senjen)
Subject: Re: [Storyspace] hypertext novel ?
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:18:30 GMT

> 	Storyspace, written for the Macintosh,
> allows the writer to invent an extraordinary
> number of lines and to connect them in weird and
> multifarious ways.  One word or phrase or
> graphical element can lead to any number of
> others; one "space"--a kind of window in the text
> that is to Storyspace what the paragraph is to
> print text--can lead to any number of others. 
> The reader's choices are both enabled and
> circumscribed as the author chooses:  I might
> allow only one connection between spaces, I might
> force you to choose among many; I might not allow
> you to see certain spaces until you have read
> others (this is done through a cute piece of
> technique called a "guard field" that allows
> access to a given space only when specified
> criteria have been met).  I can present you a
> two-dimensional map of all spaces and allow you
> to choose among them at your whim.  
> *****
> [end of excerpt]

I felt rather inspired by Tom's posting on hypertext
prose and would like to play with a good one.

My experience so far with hypertext text (educational stuff mainly)
has been more one of boredom and annoyance. Is there anything
interesting availbable that I could ftp ???? Anybody know if there
is hypertext software availble for the sun??? 

r.senjen@trl.oz.au
From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
Newsgroups: misc.writing
Subject: Re: First Paid By-Line
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:21:35 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

In article <1is0pcINN7ri@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> willo@youcon.Central.Sun.COM (Doug Willoughby  Area SE  - Midwest Area ) writes:

>
>I'm amazed at the number of thing I do for pleasure that others
>say are foolish. I love to sail. I think it was Lord Byron who
>said (pardon the paraphase), "Anyone who sails for pleasure is
>a damn fool." Advice I've never taken along the same lines:
>"Only racers and other idiots sail into the wind."
>

You're obviously a first class chap. I like sailing too, second only to
fishing. Byron slagged off fishing too. What a complete pheasant!

Nigel
Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: Eastgate@world.std.com (Mark Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Anyone comment on Storyshaper? (actually Storyspace)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:16:46 GMT

I work for Eastgate Systems, the publisher of Storyspace. Always
delighted to answer questions, garner feedback, or discuss new
ideas. 

Mark Bernstein
Eastgate Systems, Inc. 134 Main St Watertown MA 02172
Eastgate@world.std.com   (800) 562-1638    (617) 924-9044 fax (617) 923-4575

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Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Anyone comment on Storyshaper?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:27:15 GMT

Bob Devereaux (bobdev@hprpcd.rose.hp.com) wrote:

: I saw an ad recently for a Mac-only software product called, I think,
: StoryShaper.  Robert Coover endorsed it.  It helps plan story structures
: & provides variant views of the artifact.
: 
:   (1)  Anyone care to comment as to its merits or de-??
:   (2)  Anyone have knowledge about whether the Cambridge, MA company
:   that produces it plans a PC version??

I suspect you mean "Storyspace," a true hypertext program for the Mac,
from Eastgate Systems of Cambridge, MA. This is the program used by
Coover in one of his writing classes, and endorsed by him.

I've been using Storyspace for the past half year and can post some
comments about it if there's interest here.

In the meantime, some brief points:

* Eastgate can be reached at 800-562-1638.

* A new version, 1.3, will ship shortly after MacWorld (happening
now).

* The price is around $225, direct from Eastgate. (I haven't seen
other sellers carrying it, so there is none of the standard price
discounting.) 

* A version for DOS or Windows seems unlikely, given the small size of
Eastgate and their focus on the Mac.

* Storyspace is a "true" hypertext system in that it supports
bidirectional links between nodes containing text, pictures, or even
Quicktime movies (a feature few writers need, but which
"presentations" and training uses may use often). Multiple paths
through this web of nodes are easy to construct, a valuable tool for
fiction writing.

* Storyspace has a few peculiarities, though, and some bugs. I hope
version 1.3 fixes them! 

I'm using Storyspace to write a novel, and find it superior to the
other hypertext programs I've used (the now-defunct "Architext" and
the crippled "Hypercard") and to traditional word processing apps
(like Microsoft Word and FrameMaker). I still like the powerful
outlining and cloning features of "More," and so haven't switched over
completely to Storyspace.

Hope this helps someone.

-Tim May

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Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: ehp@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ("Didi Pancake")
Subject: Re: THE NEXT DECADE?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:02:49 GMT

In article <19394@mindlink.bc.ca> Marg_Meikle@mindlink.bc.ca (Marg Meikle) writes:
>So whaddya think.  If the last decade was the eighties and this is the
>nineties,  what will we call the next decade?


The noughties, of course :-)

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Newsgroups: misc.writing,misc.kids,rec.arts.books
From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
Subject: Re: Question - what's the word for ...
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:25:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.184705.842@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> bab2@nestor.cc.bellcore.com (barter,elizabeth) writes:
>
>I'm looking for the word that means/describes kids substituting
>some words for others.  Not because they have hearing or speech 
>problems, but because the word is too big for them to get their 
>mouths around it.  The Pledge of Allegiance is often used as an
>example.   Another one is when a relative said said his name was 
>"William IwishIwas Kelly" instead of William Aloysius Kelly.

Malapropism - "a usually humorous misapplication of a word; specif:  the
use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously
wrong in the context" - Merriam-Webster New Collegiate Dictionary.

       The Rhealist - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: Marg_Meikle@mindlink.bc.ca (Marg Meikle)
Subject: THE NEXT DECADE?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:56:19 GMT

So whaddya think.  If the last decade was the eighties and this is the
nineties,  what will we call the next decade?
From: willo@youcon.Central.Sun.COM (Doug Willoughby  Area SE  - Midwest Area )
Newsgroups: misc.writing
Subject: Re: First Paid By-Line
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:38:35 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems - Southfield, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: youcon.central.sun.com

In article <a883520@pro-harold.cts.com>, chrisc@pro-harold.cts.com (Chris Carstens) writes:
|> Congratualtions.  To quote Sam Johnson, "Nobody but a fool would write for
|> anything but money."
|> Chris
|> -----
|> Chris Carstens
|> ProLine: chrisc@pro-harold
|> Internet: chrisc@pro-harold.cts.com
|> UUCP: crash!pro-harold!chrisc

I'm amazed at the number of thing I do for pleasure that others
say are foolish. I love to sail. I think it was Lord Byron who
said (pardon the paraphase), "Anyone who sails for pleasure is
a damn fool." Advice I've never taken along the same lines:
"Only racers and other idiots sail into the wind."

Doug 
Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: apdolan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dolan andrew)
Subject: getting published/queries & agents
Summary: getting published/queries and agents
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:21:25 GMT
Keywords: getting published/queries & agents

 
 If you have an unpublished manuscript, do not mail it out on an unsolicited basis. At least as concerns book manuscripts, one should put together a
 query letter summarizing the contents and ask an editor to request all or part of the manuscript. One good book on this topic is by literary agent
 Jeff Herman(Hermann?)"The Insider's Guide to Publishers". He tells how to
 write a query letter and tells you how to target editors by their
 subject matter specialties, such as sports or cookbooks. He also has a bit to say about literary agents such as himself.

 Another good book is "The Writer's Guide to Query Letters",
 by Gordon Burgett. He has a lot of sample queries for both
 books and magazine articles. Both of these books are put out
 by Prima Press or Publishing, which I've noticed seems to put out
 a number of books  for frelance writers.

 If anyone else has comments, suggestions on other books not mentioned above,
 I'd like to hear from you on this bulletin board. I have a particular
 interest in travel writing and publishing.


M

Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: hsue@ellis.uchicago.edu (yung chang  hsueh)
Subject: Help Wanted: Sample Letters to Heads of State
Reply-To: hsue@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:47:26 GMT

Hi, everyone-

I am looking for such a book that includes some sample letters to King, queen
and other heads of state. Does anyone have any recommendation? If you do
please email me. Thank you very much.


Cheers
(Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0nBRHY-0000p6C; Mon, 11 Jan 93 07: 42 PST
From: chrisc@pro-harold.cts.com (Chris Carstens)
Newsgroups: misc.writing
Subject: Re: Getting novels published...
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:01:13 GMT
Organization: The Harold Network -- An Alliance For Creative Communication

You ask 
" I was wondering if anyone out
there knows how to get novels published once you've gotten them written.
Eg. do I send it off to publishers?  Is there a set of procedures or
something
I have to do first?  Do I have to know editors here and there?  Anything?"

The first step is to buy the current copy of Writer's Market, and the
second step is to study it.  It provides a pretty good road map for the
territory, and nobody who thinks about getting published should be without
one.

Good luck,

Chris
,
-----
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ProLine: chrisc@pro-harold
Internet: chrisc@pro-harold.cts.com
UUCP: crash!pro-harold!chrisc
Newsgroups: misc.writing
From: guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay)
Subject: Re: WritePro, 1st Aid for Writers, WANDAH, SWANDAH
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:53:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.063511.27976@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> adelle@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (adelle.s.Petrocco) writes:
>In article <1559@blue.cis.pitt.edu> urcml+@pitt.edu (Mun L Chan) writes:
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>	I like to know if anyone is familiar/using either of the
>>software WritePro and First Aid for Writers.
>
>Save your money on WritePro.  I bought it on a 30-day money
>back guarantee.  I was so disappointed, I sent it back and got
>my money back.
>
>WritePro is very elementary and it keeps asking you if you're
>sure you don't want to change the first paragraph.  I got so
>frustrated, I wanted to take an axe to the pc. 
>
>Try reading some good writing books.
>
I agree!!! Writepro DOES NOT match its billing!!!

Tim the Canadian
From: johnb@ocean.rutgers.edu (Dog Jones)
Newsgroups: misc.writing
Subject: FAQ?
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:40:36 GMT
Distribution: misc.writing
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Is there a list of FAQ that can be posted to the group? 

Woof

JohnnyB
johnb@ocean.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: misc.writing