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Strategies & Market Trends : Shorting stocks: High fliers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kip518 who wrote (624)	1/6/1999 8:59:00 AM
From: Anaxagoras	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 709

<<When the IRS calls, do you trust Jill to keep your anonymity?>> Anonymity? What anonymity? I am Anaxagoras, and I pay the salaries of those darn govment clerks with those wretched taxes they've placed on my fig business. Ever since Thales made a killing by cornering the market on oil-mills after correctly forecasting a bumper crop in olives the tax collectors in Athens have been all over the butts of us ancient philosophers. ;-) Hey, Chester- Concerning tax software.... I used TurboTax Deluxe last year and was not pleased. For one thing, there was actually an error in the program that would freeze up my 'puter whenever I did a certain action (had to do with annotating wash sales, but I can't recall exactly what it was). What really annoyed me was the fact that I had gotten the deluxe version partly because it included electronic filing for "free", i.e. the usual fee didn't apply. However, once I got finished doing my taxes, at the very last step the program told me I couldn't file electronically because I had too many items on my schedule D. There had been no indication earlier anywhere that this might be a problem, and although the IRS is ultimately responsible for that condition, the packaging was a bit misleading in who might be able to file electronically, IMO. I basically agree with what John said, although I've not used the state return filing. Hey, is it time to rename the thread, John? ;-) A double entendre might be nice, maybe something like "Taxing Issues". Shorting high flyers was always too scary anyway. :-0 Anaxagoras