Posts by Sean Kelly8

Are you guys having any luck filing the GFI with FINRA?

Jamie Ortiz3 said:Leola, did you ever figure out that attachment issue? It’s giving me trouble too... Files are PDFs, no weird characters in the filenames, but they still won't upload. Has anyone else dealt with this...

A bit late getting back to this (busy day). It worked—or rather, it fixed itself. Just make sure the folder where you're saving those PDFs doesn't have any non-English characters in the directory path. That was the culprit.

frozenangler12 said:What kind of supporting documents am I supposed to include? Would just providing my Social Security statement be enough to prove I'm officially enrolled...
I'm also getting an error message saying my digital signature doesn't match the information on file. I actually just had my certificate renewed recently, so I wonder if that might be causing the issue...

If you just renewed the certificate, you probably have to call them. You need to get someone on the line so they can manually re-enter your name and SSN. (I don't have the number handy since I'm at work, but if you can't find it, I'll send it over Monday). That’s how I finally got it to work after struggling for ages. As soon as I dictated the specific info they asked for over the phone, the app started working fine.

When you need to renew your Bloomberg certificate because it expired, you have to let Medicare know so they can keep using their application. (Just a heads up, you don't need to notify the U.S. Census Bureau or the IRS; everything there happens automatically).

Lawrence Clark2 said:Does anyone happen to know what else I need to do to get this electronic health portal actually working?
I finally received my activation email today (after waiting 40 days!) so I could start using the system. I went ahead and installed the SuperJ Client, and it seems to initiate the connection to "healthcare.gov:443" perfectly fine—it even says "connection successful"—but then, three seconds later, the server just stops responding.
There isn't any option to select certificates or anything similar. The instructions are incredibly sparse, offering nothing beyond basic app usage.
If anyone has any insight into what’s required, please let me know, because trying to reach them over the phone is... well, you can imagine.

Honestly, dealing with these digital certificates, Java updates, and all the other bureaucratic nonsense like e-customs feels like a losing battle. It's as if we're expected to be IT experts just to navigate basic services.

Same here. Like Sean Kelly8 mentioned earlier, it's not working for me either and I'm getting the exact same error message. In the past, their app was mostly functional. Sure, it would glitch occasionally, but they'd usually fix the bugs within the day. But today? It's been stuck on the same error for me since this morning.

Is anyone else having trouble with the online health portal today? I keep getting hit with a "Server not responding" error. I went ahead and renewed my digital certificates since they had expired, but now I’m stuck. Not sure if the issue is on my end or if the system is just down.

Has anyone else tried submitting claims through the Medicare website? I can't get my attachments to upload for the life of me.

In my experience, they haven't activated you yet. The fastest turnaround I've seen so far was about 30 days.
Regarding enrollments and cancellations—they were processing April 15th applications today (I actually got an email response asking why I’d been waiting 10 days for my paperwork). Since it's already been 16 hours and my April 15th filing still isn't processed, I’m guessing it won't be handled until Monday. That would bring it to exactly 13 days. Long live "e."

Can you check the info over at www.google.com

From what I’ve seen, the IRS only cares about the receipts. They aren't looking at your vehicle title—and honestly, I don't get why someone's name would be on the title if you already have the invoice in hand.
You could try drafting a private contract, but that rarely holds up during an audit by state inspectors. Plus, most loan agreements with banks like Chase or Wells Fargo explicitly state you can't sell or lease the car until the debt is cleared. You really need to read the fine print on that contract.
If your main goal is just justifying business expenses, it's much cleaner and more professional to just use a mileage reimbursement log.

If the invoice is in the company's name, then the business owns the vehicle. You prove initial ownership through either that invoice or a bill of sale. I'm not sure which sales tax you're referring to—are we talking about the tax built into the car's price, or just the tax on service visits and gas? If you mean the tax on the vehicle itself, you can claim that credit as long as you have a valid invoice on hand (complete with the EIN, company name, etc.).
As for mileage logs, if the car is registered to the business, you're required to track every trip longer than 19 miles.

You can sell the car using a standard bill of sale, but there's a catch: you won't be able to write off the sales tax on the vehicle itself. You’d only be able to claim deductions later on things like gas, maintenance, and other supplies—and even then, if it's your personal vehicle, you're capped at 70%.
Otherwise (meaning if you don't sell the car), you just calculate $0.67/mile as local business travel.