IRS Tax Return Tips and Tricks

Both Turbo Tax and H&R block calculate my return as 2K when the total Federal taxes in 2009 I paid is 1700 only. I live in Florida where there are no state taxes. I guess the error is occurring as I am a US resident alien(not a citizen) for tax purposes and I worked in my country of citizenship(from Jan to Aug 2009) where I earned around 6K and earned around 15K from Sep 2009 to Dec 2009 in US. I am a US resident alien by the substantial presence test. The 6K earned income in foreign country is coming as negative which is reducing my taxable income from 15K to 15-6 = 9K. I entered all the information properly, but still the error persists in both applications.

1. Am I understanding correctly that both applications are determining my refund inaccurately? I gather 6K should be added and then excluded from the foreign income exclusion which is 91400 for 2009.

Since my situation is complicated enough that both applications are computing the refund incorrectly,

2. Should I file for an extension or go to an actual tax preparer(which is difficult as no preparer would have time now)?

3. How do I choose a proper tax preparer as my case involves foreign income and investments so is a bit complex?

Any advice would be appreciated.
I am using the Free versions of both software. Could that be an issue?

only web sites that are free to file your w-2 forms

Our divorce decree states that we are to alternate years claiming our daughter. This year was supposed to be our year, but I e-filed my taxes and it was rejected because it said that she was already claimed by another person. He still has not returned my calls regarding this, but I can’t imagine who else would have claimed her. Anyway, who do I need to do in order to claim her since, according to the divorce decree, it is our year?
Sorry for the bad grammar and difficulty understanding this. I’m super-mad right now
I just pulled out my decree and read through it and it actually does not say anything about claiming our daughter. After I thought about it, I think I just let it alternate because I felt like it was the “fair” thing to do. So basically, he did not have ANY right to claim her. I just hate to go to a lawyer to get it resolved.

I have to re-do some returns and would like to find something akin to TurboTax to do the returns for 2003-06. Is there anything available for free on-line (or anywhere else). Thanks!

For the past few years I have filed my income tax telephonically. I haven’t gotten a form from the IRS. How

I temporarily moved to Arizona in earlySeptember of 2006 and started work at Toys R Us in late September as a seasonal employee. I did not get a address change because I am moving back in March of this year so my permanent address is still in Chicago. On my w-2 from my job it has my address here. How do I go about filing? Do I do the federal return for Arizona and the State return for Illinois?

I live in ILLINOIS.

Fresno, CA or Kansas City, MO?
The IRS website states that for Tax year 2010, Fed returns for individuals (living in ILL) should file it to Fresno, CA, but my Turbo Tax software for Tax Year 2006 said Kansas City, MO

I read somewhere that you can give your kids or anyone else up to $10,000 a year and deduct it from your income. If this is true, where can I find out the rules concerning this? Must it be business related?

I know that i HAVE TO FILE THE 940 BUT WHERE CAN I get another one or can I use the last check or the top part that I still have that was detachrd from the 940 statment?

If I Itemize my deductions can I use those on my form and then my wife takes standard deductions on her return