<bm30003700[at]aol.com> wrote

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It doesn't take long to get the information for the
short-cut method. Most of my clients are getting a few
hundred back ($100 - $200 seems to be the average), with one
as high as $300 and one as low as $40.

It doesn't actually take long either way, once you have the
data.

Finding the data though is a whole other story.

The tax was 3% of the long distance, so take a look at the
past few months bills long distance to see if you think it's
worth the time to dig out the bills over what might not
amount to much more.

If the phone usage is pretty static, go with the EZ method
and pull the details from the April and September phone
bills.

If they had more LD usage in past years, it's worth digging
it out month by month.

--
Paul Thomas, CPA
paulthomascpapc[at]bellsouth.net

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It seems to me that the amount of work involved in filling
out form 8913 to claim credit may outweigh the amount of the
credit. Does anyone have any rough idea how large a
partnership's telephone bills would have to be to make it
worthwhile to claim this credit?

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