What Form 8815 Grants 2024-2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "If there were any one period in time one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, when old and new stand side by side and admit of being compared, when the energies of all men are stirred by fear and by hope, and when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?" This time, like all times, is a very good one if we know what to do with it. It reminds me of a story that happened seventeen and a half years ago. For me, I lived in Sydney, Australia, and I had just started a new job. I was asked to go to a national sales meeting because I was the general manager of the operation. I learned that the national sales meeting was actually on the date that my wife was due to have our child, so I was very concerned. I went home and told her about it. I said, "Look, first children are never born on their due date, so I'm gonna be gone just one night and I'm going to Cairns, Australia, and I'm gonna be there for one night for this meeting. I got to give a speech. I'm gonna come back, and everything's gonna be fine." And very likely, the doctor told us anyway, that you're not gonna have the baby for about two more weeks. So I went up there, and I was still negotiating the bonus plan for the year. So I was talking with my new boss, who was the Swiss gentleman named Roto. Roto had this very, very heavy, thick Swiss accent. Oh, he smokes cigarettes. And we were going through this tough negotiation, and right in the...