What are the odds on this? Playing 10-play deuces I was dealt three of a
kind. Hit NINE quads.
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practice, there is.
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> "Valerie Pollard" <vpollard@...> wrote:
> I'm hoping for some help. When I try to view the photos now, a Yahoo page comes up telling me I need to add my email address to the group and that I will get an email back which will enable me to see the photos and go into that part of the groups page.
> This just started a couple of days ago - everything was fine before then.
> So - I entered my email address and never got an email back, and am still getting that same Yahoo page when I try to view the photos.
> Does anyone know what is going on?
Valerie, your post went through so you are still subscribed to this group.
If you have a spam filter, the reply from Yahoo may be there.
Meanwhile, you should be able to log in to Yahoo with your Yahoo ID to
see the photos.
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<<If possible, I'd rather send in the documentation with my return to begin with, than to wait to show it at an audit.>>
Wrong, wrong, wrong – for many reasons. First, attachments are often lost. More importantly, too much information can raise red flags to unknowledgeable IRS employees and more likely to generate an audit. Wait until you get a letter audit to send in requested information – and even then, keep your response short and sweet and send in only the basic summary records. There are usually many "letter audits" before it gets to the more serious audit in person, time enough to give them more information if the basics don't satisfy them.
Everyone should be careful what they write on this list – or any forum – about taxes. It is not helpful – and can be actually dangerous – when a poster gives merely personal opinions or talks about what "seems" to be right or logical. (The IRS is not known for "logical" decisions.) And sadly, some people don't read such posts carefully and don't distinguish between "facts" and opinions. In our tax book, Marissa and I – frustratingly often –must put in qualifiers all the time – " individual circumstances" is the key here.
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Does anyone have any sugestions for where to find the best deals on airline/hotel fares ? Also is there a cheaper time of the week to fly ?
> 4a. Re: W2G
Caveat: I am not a tax pro, just know what I read and what people tell me, so I may not be adding anything worthwhile, and could even be wrong.
To me the key is not so much "how you file" those W2Gs, although there is certainly merit in NOT doing it in such a way as to AUTOMATICALLY generate an audit, as it is having adequate records to withstand the audit if it comes. I have other reasons I can't file electronically, and I can't comment on any restrictions on that, although it would seem to me that scanning a stack of W2Gs and attaching that file to the return might meet the requirements (but just because I think so, doesn't make it OK with the IRS -- since I don't do electronic myself, I have no idea whether they allow electronic attachments). If possible, I'd rather send in the documentation with my return to begin with, than to wait to show it at an audit.
From what I've read (and heard on this list), a contemporaneous gambling log is the best documentation. My gambling log includes the usual session information, but in addition, if there are W2Gs, the session information also includes something like "includes W2G for $X,XXX". Every W2G is thus accounted for explicitly in the log, so that if I've hit a royal but lost $2,000 getting there that session, the W2G is accounted for, but so is the reported session result of a win of less than the W2G amount. If you're playing higher denominations that generate a bunch of W2Gs, I'd expect it would not be uncommon even to have losing sessions with a W2G.
My "log" is very very simple -- a stack of hand-written 3x5 cards with session results, sometimes with several sessions on a card if they fit -- each one shows date, time played, place played, game played, session outcome -- and if a W2G is generated, that is there too.
I do use an accountant for my tax returns (in spite of their ignorance of gambling tax laws -- I need them for other, more complicated things that they are actually expert in because more of their clients encounter them) -- I summarize the session data into a document that is more legible than my original note cards, for the accountant's convenience, and that document just has date, place, and win/loss amount. The accountant has said that's good enough for him (and for his assistant, a "her"), but I still keep the 3x5's for a long time, just in case, assuming that the clearly contemporaneous log will be good evidence if I'm audited. They don't take that much space; I bundle them with a rubber band at the end of the year, throw them in a box, and clear out the ones older than 6 years every so often.
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> You usually have to put a "date won" next to the casino
> entries. As a
> non-pro, for example, I'd be nervous listing one $100,000
> win dated December
> 31 ( assuming your last jackpot was then ) , versus 20 $5000
> hits scattered
> about during the year. The logic being, for audit profiling
> , maybe he's a
> person that hit a big jackpot in late December , got
> lucky, and is likely a
> winner for the year. Are you saying it dont matter, they
> pull up their
> records , see that its really 20 hits not one ?
> best...Tom
<<You usually have to put a "date won" next to the casino entries. As a non-pro, for example, I'd be nervous listing one $100,000 win dated December
31 ( assuming your last jackpot was then ) , versus 20 $5000 hits scattered about during the year. The logic being, for audit profiling , maybe he's a person that hit a big jackpot in late December , got lucky, and is likely a winner for the year. Are you saying it dont matter, they pull up their records , see that its really 20 hits not one ?
best...Tom>>
1) They have copies of all your W-2Gs already.
2) Although tax software asks you to fill in a bunch of information about each W-2G, when I checked the actual data being transmitted via the e-file a few years ago I didn't see any of the individual W-2G data, just the total amount won.
3) If you file a paper return there is no place to list individual W-2Gs, nor are you supposed to return them unless there is tax withheld
So my conclusion is that tax software unnecessarily asks you to do a lot of typing.
Cogno
I had my first royal on a redeal last night (10-play Rampart). I've put
the photo in the files. You could have knocked me over with a feather!!
Karen
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practice, there is.
Yogi Berra
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Don't have any current info on Parx. It has been over a year and a half since I last visited there. Vowed to not go back when the best DDB I could find was 8/5. May make a visit soon to scout what the paytables are now. Will post when I have some info.
jcwible
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> What is the best game you have seen at PARX at each deonm:
> .05,.25,$1, $5
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> >
> > Yesterday's visit was very disappointing. Most of the playable machines have had reductions in their pay schedules. I scouted all that were not being played and found only two machines with 9/6 JOB, 9/7 DB and 9/6 DDB. They will probably not remain since I saw slot techs looking at them too.
> >
> > Looks like AC is quickly a place that I will no longer visit. Why drive two hours for machines I can find at PARX which is 10 minutes away.
> >
> > jcwible
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I'm hoping for some help. When I try to view the photos now, a Yahoo page comes up telling me I need to add my email address to the group and that I will get an email back which will enable me to see the photos and go into that part of the groups page.
This just started a couple of days ago - everything was fine before then.
So - I entered my email address and never got an email back, and am still getting that same Yahoo page when I try to view the photos.
Does anyone know what is going on?
Help.
Valerie
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You usually have to put a "date won" next to the casino entries. As a
non-pro, for example, I'd be nervous listing one $100,000 win dated December
31 ( assuming your last jackpot was then ) , versus 20 $5000 hits scattered
about during the year. The logic being, for audit profiling , maybe he's a
person that hit a big jackpot in late December , got lucky, and is likely a
winner for the year. Are you saying it dont matter, they pull up their
records , see that its really 20 hits not one ?
best...Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Queen of Comps" <queenofcomps@cox.net>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: W2G
We don't e-file but the way we handle our W-2G's is to put the one big total
in the proper place on the main return (that depends on whether you file as
a recreational gambler or file a Schedule C as a professional one) and then
attach a list to the return. We used to list each W-2G on that attachment,
but now we combine all the W-2G's from one casino. So then our list is by
casino totals.
However, you can never be sure what is the best way. The IRS has a way of
losing attachments. We have had them question us (in a letter audit) and we
had to send the list a second time.
