Individual Organizer Checklist
Did you:
Personal Information:
- Did you receive an IOU from California last year?
- Change your address from last year
- Did you move? Was it for employment or business reasons? Was it to/from another state?
- Do you wish to have your tax return mailed to an address other than that on the return?
- Change your marital status
- Become legally blind or disabled
- Buy, sell, or short sale any property? Please bring in your escrow statement (HUD-1) and Forms 592-B, 593-B, or 3528A (first home credit)
- Have any debt relief, foreclosure, or debt forgiveness? Please bring in 1099-A and/or 1099-C
- Rent for at least 6 months
Dependent Information:
- Have any changes to dependent information? Bring in the Social Security Card for new dependents
- Did you adopt a child
- Pay for child care? Please provide amount paid for each child, as well as the name, address, phone number, and identifying number (SSN or EIN) of care provider
- Can someone else claim you as a dependent
Education Information:
- Did you or your dependent attend any post secondary education classes?
- Use your 529 plan for education expenses
- Pay student loan interest
Income Information:
- Make or receive alimony payments
- Payments on prior year sales of property
- Trade a vehicle in on the "Cash for Clunkers" program
- Rental or royalty income
- Tax exempt interest, disability payments, or other non-taxable income
- Foreign taxable income or foreign tax
- Are you a grantor or transferor for a foreign trust? Do you have an interest in, or other authority over a bank account, securities account, or other financial account in a foreign country?
- Buy or sell securities? Please bring in your statements
- Receive stock options or grants from your employer, or exercise stock options
- Contribute to, withdraw from, or rollover a Keogh, IRA, or Roth IRA. Are you over 70 ½?
- Unemployment, social security, or railroad retirement benefits
- Any type of prize, award, loan settlement, tips, gambling winnings, or jury duty fees
Purchase, Sales, and Business Information:
- Increase employees from 2008? Please bring in payroll records for 2008 and 2009
- If you are claiming deductions for travel, entertainment, business gifts you must substantiate by adequate records, including: (1) Amount, (2) Time and place, (3) Date and description of gift, (4) Business relationship, and (5) Business purpose.
- Use your car for business? You must maintain a mileage log!
- Refinance your home loan? If yes, be sure to bring in your final closing settlement statement.
- Use a portion of your home as an office
- Start a new business
- Sell or dissolve a business
- Acquire new or additional interest in a partnership, LLC, or S-Corp
- Purchase assets for use in a business
- Work out of town at any time
- Engage in any bartering transactions
- Job seeking expenses
Miscellaneous Information:
- Consider making a Roth IRA conversion in 2010
- Suffer a major casualty such as theft or storm damage
- Contributions to or distributions from a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Receive any COBRA insurance
- Purchase gasoline, fuel, etc. for a non-highway vehicle?
- Purchase any items online, by phone, by mail, or out of state, where no California sales tax was charged on it
- Purchase a Hybrid vehicle
- Purchase a vehicle? Please bring in your Purchase Agreement Contract
- DMV fees paid
- Union dues paid
- Did you give any gifts of more than $13,000 to any individual?
- Do you wish to make voluntary California contributions to certain charities?
- Do you want to allocate $3 to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund?
- May the IRS discuss your return with your tax preparer?
- Charitable contributions now need proof of donation. be sure to keep your receipts
office (909)
983-3716