notary

[BOB W]

Clients Only???

Doesn't that mean for your clients only??????

[Joe Btfsplk]

EA as notary

Linda, here is the information regarding this:

§ 10.26 Notaries.
A practitioner may not take acknowledgments, administer oaths, certify papers, or perform any official act as a notary public with respect to any matter administered by the Internal Revenue Service and for which he or she is employed as counsel, attorney,
or agent, or in which he or she may be in any way interested.

Not only EAs, but all "practitioners" fall under this rule.
However, I don't think the documents you would notarize would be for the IRS. More often they would be for real estate transactions and documents for other government agencies.

I used to notarize bills one of my clients submitted to the State. At one time every billing to the State had to be notarized. This may have changed by now.

I quit being a notary over 40 years ago.

[Joe Btfsplk]

Notary

A notary is a public official. I believe Huey Long was able to avoid the draft because he was a "public official" (notary) back before he became governor of La.

Several years ago I had a few beers with one of Huey's sons at a place called Tooter's Lounge in Shreveport or Bossier City. He was Russell Long's brother, but had never entered politics as far as I know.

[BOB W]

§ 10.26 Notaries.
A practitioner may not take acknowledgments, administer oaths, certify papers, or perform any official act as a notary public with respect to any matter administered by the Internal Revenue Service "AND" for which he or she is employed as counsel, attorney, or agent, or in which he or she may be in any way interested.


The word "AND" I read as a condition (only if employed by the client or have an interest).

I read that a practioner/notary can notarize IRS documents as long as it is not the practioner's client.

[BOB W]

What???????

What???????.......... nobody agrees with me?????????????????? How about any disagreements.......

By the way ,,,,, I would not be a notary for all the other reasons mentioned. Was one but too many were asking "special" favors. It was easier saying "I'm not a notary".

[Corduroy Frog]

All the Kings Men

[QUOTE=Several years ago I had a few beers with one of Huey's sons at a place called Tooter's Lounge in Shreveport or Bossier City. He was Russell Long's brother, but had never entered politics as far as I know.[/QUOTE]

Joe, if you haven't already, try to find "All the Kings Men" (1949 starring Broderick Crawford -- NOT the miserable remake with Sean Penn in 2005). Won 3 Oscars, and in spite of not having modern cinematography, one of the all-time greats with scenes that will stir your blood.

Many felt the production was a direct take-off on Huey Long. I've had people tell me if he hadn't been asassinated, he would have been President.

[Joe Btfsplk]

All the King's Men

Joe, if you haven't already, try to find "All the Kings Men" (1949 starring Broderick Crawford -- NOT the miserable remake with Sean Penn in 2005). Won 3 Oscars, and in spite of not having modern cinematography, one of the all-time greats with scenes that will stir your blood.

Many felt the production was a direct take-off on Huey Long. I've had people tell me if he hadn't been asassinated, he would have been President.

I've seen the original version with Broderick Crawford which won him a 'best actor's' award.
It was clearly based on the Kingfish's time as LA Governor. I've also seen some scenes with Huey Long on TV. One of them showed his astonishment when a champaigne cork popped and sounded like a gunshot--then he began smiling after he realized he was out of danger.
Another showed him tasting something to see if it was whiskey. After the first sip, he took another one, then said, "better make sure" and took a third sip which got a big laugh from the audience. He was a master at entertaining the voters, so they didn't even notice his hand in their pocket up to his elbow.

[Roberts]

The need in this market is when people need something to be notarized TONIGHT, you can charge basically whatever you want because they are desperate. I did it for a little while on a whim but I wasn't really interested in getting calls at 8:00 in the evening from people desperate for me to drive across town. If you can do that - there is money to be made. I charged $75 just to make the trip and then normal signing fees for the first 30 minutes and an additional $25 for every additional 30 minutes. You can advertise via websites for free - that's how I did it. Some services will do the advertising for you and share in the fees.