HCVT Phrases
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HCVT Employees
100

This word is what managers/partners say when something is irrelevant/unimportant.

What is immaterial?

100

This type of sport involves athletes scoring touchdowns & field goals to earn points for their team.

What is American football?

100

This is an accounting professional who has met certain education, exam, and experience requirements for licensure by a state board of accountancy.

What is a CPA?

100

This name is Beyoncé's alter ego.

Who is Sasha Fierce?

100

This HCVT employee got married this year.

Who is Danny Porras?

200

This phrase is used when a situation varies per each return you work on & the answer to a question will be different in different situations.

What is “it depends”?

200

This symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions, used alone, in one or in five different colors, which are, from left to right, blue, yellow, black, green and red.

What are the Olympics Rings?

200

This type of filing status means you and your spouse each report income, deductions, credits, and exemptions on separate tax returns instead of on one joint return.

What is Married Filing Separately?

200

In 2001, this pop-singer couple attended the American Music Awards dressed in all denim.

Who are Britany Spears & Justin Timberlake?

200

This HCVT employee has a twin brother.

Who is Tyler Verna?

300

This word is something you must do on a tax return when something is not flowing or have to adjust something on the yellow screen for GoSystems.

What is “override”?

300

This NBA player scored 81 points in a single game in 2006.

Who is Kobe Bryant?

300

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This is the tax effect that results when a deemed distribution occurs as a result of a partner's share of liabilities decreasing in excess of the partner's basis.

What is taxable gain?

300

The widely-watched defamation trial of what celebrity couple aired on television from April to June of 2022?

Who are Johnny Depp & Amber Heard?

300

This HCVT employee became manager in 4 years, becoming the last person to ever do this.

Who is Britany Wells?

400

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This phrase is used when you are completely done with the return and you know there is an error on a return, but do not want to ask the manager on the return for help.

What is “I’ll just get a query on it”?

400

This team won the 2020 NBA finals.

Who are the Los Angeles Lakers?

400

This code section generally requires taxpayers that are producing real or tangible personal property to capitalize direct material costs, direct labor costs, and indirect costs that are properly allocable to the produced property.

What is Section 263(A)?

400

According to Billboard, this band was the highest-grossing rock tour in 2023.

Who is Coldplay?

400

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After 4 years being a tax accountant at HCVT, this employee went on to teach high school math. After teaching high school math, this employee came back to HCVT last year.

Who is Jessica Fine?

500

This phrase is a sentence that HCVT adds at the end of a footnote on a K-1 but is also one we don't like getting from outside tax preparers on the K-1s we receive.

What is “Please ask your tax advisor”?

500

This golfer was the first golfer ever to reach $1 million in winnings. He is also known for having a drink named after him.

Who is Arnold Palmer?

500

Solve this question


Lily had the following on her tax return:


Salary: $75,000

Prize From Quiz Show: $105,000

Itemized Deductions: $49,000

Capital Gain/Loss: ($3,000)

Embezzled Funds: $6,000

Qualified Business Income: $5,000

Partnership Income: $86,000

Interest Income: $98,000


What is Lily's taxable income?

What is $313,000?

500

This person is the most followed person on Instagram, currently having over 427 million followers.

Who is Selena Gomez?

500

This HCVT employee got their marriage license certificate by drive-through.

Who is Stella Liu?