Congrats to VReed who slipped in just under the deadline, although it looks like it might be a duplicate. Tsk, tsk. And thanks to Sue who just missed the deadline. You see I already coded the part that checks for late entries. If nobody sent a late one, I might never have know if it worked.

By the way we don’t have basements in NZ as most of our dwellings are single-storey. But you’re welcome to my garage instead.

-Alex

for a guy who claims “I hate those stupid …. disclaimers so much.” that’s pretty rich !
BTW: my corporate disclaimer is 1382 characters long

I don’t work on the tax side of my firm, I just follow orders. However, in scanning IRS Circular 230, I think I found what you were looking for.

On page 25 of the Circular near the bottom of the left column there is a definition of a “marketed opinion.” The disclosures we put in our emails and other communications are more or less a CYA statement to indicate that the communication is not a marketed opinion, which is covered in items 5(ii)(A),(B), and (C) on that same page.

Basically it states that the recipient cannot use the advice to avoid tax penalties, that the advice given is specific to the circumstances address, and that the taxpayer should seek advice based on their individual circumstances. Or something like that.

So rather than trying to pick and choose what emails should be tagged with the disclosure, all email are tagged automatically when they go through the server.

Now my brain hurts from reading IRS documents.

Anyway, I hope that was what you were looking for.

Of the 45, 28 have less than five characters in the body and 11 have exactly one character in the body. Every email of the 28 that has the same number of characters in the body also has the same characters in the body, to wit:

Char – ASCII codes
1 – 160
2 – 13,10
3 – 160,13,10
4 – 13,10,13,10

I don’t know why these people have non-printing characters in their email, but I’m allowing them. The new rule is that if your email body contains only the characters 160, 13, 10, and 9, then it will be deemed to be empty and it will not be rejected.

That results in 58 valid entries, 6 dupes. I’ll post the code I’m using Friday afternoon to minimize people trying to game the system.

It seems a bit odd that if I answer a NG question about Excel from my codematic email address I need to include a load of pointless irrelevant stuff because its a company, so I don’t.

cheers
Simon

Anyway, I didn’t use my work email so there wasn’t a disclaimer on my email entry!

Fortunately my company has no such asinine practices. And if anything stupid comes down from Corporate, I can easily change it, because I’m corporate.