No EZ to SF to EZ

[austin3515]

Solo plan had an eligible employee for 2010 and 2011 and that's it. Assets currently <250K.

1) I'm marking the s-f as a first return reprot. Anyone think I'll get a letter from the DOL asking where last year's 5500's are? Anythin I can do to prevent it?

2) When I lose the employee, I'll be over $250K, so still need to file the EZ. I think that's a good thing because when the DOL writes me looking for the 2011 filing, I can produce the EZ (I'm assuming the DOL will have no record of that).

Anyone have any other tips? I'm srt of resigned to the fact that I will be getting letters from the DOL/IRS on this...

[Andy the Actuary]

If you're from Boston, "scrod" is the pluperfect past tense of what you are.

[Bill Presson]

If you're from Boston, "scrod" is the pluperfect past tense of what you are.

Actuaries are funny!!

[austin3515]

I had to look up pluperfect in wikipedia, but I think you're message is clear even if you don't know what it means

The pluperfect (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English, is a grammatical combination of past tense with the perfect, itself a combination of tense and aspect, that exists in most Indo-European languages. It is used to refer to an event that had continuing relevance to a past time. Comrie^[1].64 classifies the pluperfect as an absolute-relative tense because it absolutely (not by context) establishes a deixis (the past) and places the action relative to the deixis (before it).

In the sentence "A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely" (from Victor Frankls' Man's Search for Meaning), "had thought" and "had reached" are examples of the pluperfect. They refer to an event (a man thinking he has reached the limit of his capacity to suffer), which takes place before another event (the man discovering that his capacity to suffer has no limit), that are still relevant at the time of the later event. Because that second, subsequent event is itself a past event and the past tense is used to refer to it ("a man...now found"), the pluperfect is needed to make it clear that the first event (reaching the limit) has taken place even earlier in the past.

[Andy the Actuary]

Wow, I meant all that ????

Glad you looked it up in Wikipedia as such explanation is provided by people and not by experts.

[Bill Presson]

So dinner and a kiss first?