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Is the IRS mad at me?

stupidsexyFlanders — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:49 -0800

Good news! Going through some old paperwork I just found a check for $2,600 that I'd never cashed from 2003. Bad news! It was a rollover distribution from a 401K at Fidelity, made out to E-trade. Fidelity says they did file a 1099 in the year they cut the check. Am I screwed for the back taxes, plus penalties? Apparently I had a notion to close out this account and consolidate the funds in a rollover IRA I have at E-trade. Never happened.

In the five years since, I've not heard anything from the IRS about this, despite the outstanding 1099 never being matched up by E-Trade with whatever form they file to show they got the $$ within 60 days.

I can't just unwind the whole thing and "decline" the check, as this was an employee 401(k) at Fidelity and they won't allow me to "add" to it. I explained it was never technically "withdrawn" but to them it was (the account still exists, with a zero balance). All they'll do is cut another check to the institution I name.

If I go that route I feel sure the IRS will match the distribution up with the deposit at E-trade and inflict all kinds of heinous penalties on me. What are my options?

I know you're not a tax advisor, but I don't think the $$ at stake here warrant paying an actual tax advisor. Maybe I'm wrong about that?

What experiences have you had with 401(k) rollovers?

moz — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:39:44 -0800

What experiences have people had rolling 401(k)s over into traditional IRAs? have you had second thoughts after the fact? i'm thinking of doing this with retirement money from my last job, but i thought i'd ask around. there's a dizzying array of advice to be had ... and i'm not sure i'll be more oriented after this question is posted.

it may help if you picture travis--of the cosmos!--asking this question.

Magical css/javascript rollover?

Memo — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:45:50 -0800

I want to make something similar to the navigation menu of Helldesign, as in 'image > click > new image' (obviously, without refreshing). Sadly, I have no idea about javascript so the html source is of little help besides telling me that they are probably using script.aculo.us to do the effect.

Any help?

(PS: It hurts to use up my question like this but... it's javascript, evil javascript!)

tail and the rolling log

nomisxid — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:07:47 -0800

Is there a tail-like program for rolling logfiles? I have a server process which produces a file server.log, which I use "tail -f server.log" to view as it's being written. Unfortunately for me, the program eventually rolls the current server.log file over to a server.log.mmddyy naming scheme, and starts a new server.log. There is no trailer written to the logfile before the rollover occurs, so I can sometimes end up wasting time looking at a stale tail, thinking my process is running slowly, when it's just moved on to another log file. Does anyone know of a smarter tail-like program that could handle this issue?

Expert Flashers needed

blag — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:13:31 -0800

I'm trying to replicate a Flash menu effect I saw recently. The menu was displayed as a vertical list. As the user rolled over the links, the highlighted word grew larger, pushing the other links out of the way. As they rolled off onto another word, the original link shrank and the next one grew, producing a kind of 'wave' effect. Sorry, I can't find an example. Does anyone know how I'd make this myself in MX 2004? I know how to get the words to grow and shrink on rollover but I can't figure out how to get the other buttons to move out of the way. Thanks.