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I billed almost 15 hours yesterday. BILLED! Now I'm trying to get a frikkin notice cleared up; the never ending audit. the original returns were so screwed up (new SSMC client) that the only way to unwind the whole thing was to send in a return to amend to joint. This was going to save them about 4k anyways. First, after I send in the 1040-X to the exam unit with copious explanations of all the issues, next correspondence is an NOD. I call on it, and the agent says that the mail room probably sent it to the amended returns unit instead of exam (even though that was where it was addressed to.) had POAs on both clients, and then voila! We find it reported under the spouse that wasn't under exam. So I fax in a not her letter explaining they had to link the two accounts. finally get a notice saying the 4k refund was coming. Then a few days ago get a new notice billing the spouse under exam for 3k. Call IRS and apparently wife has a W2c on the books. Ya know how you are only supposed to fill out the boxes that have changed? So what changed was the wages, SS wages & tax, & Medicare wages & tax. So what ever dumb ass entered it, put zeroes in the boxes that didn't change. 11k+ withholding vanishes. audit recon I guess. What a frikkin mess.

LK..........I'm Typing a motion............. Now I'm Lonely...................

​I got the same feelings about her every time I saw her speak or looked at her actions toward us ethical preparers. She is leaving 3 years too late for my tastes. Good Riddance. Her "compliments" were political male bovine scat to cover her demonic backside as she goes out the door. I am Jack From Ohio and I approved this rant!

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After 15 hours of billed time yesterday, you are probably just about in the correct frame of mind to deal with this audit issue. I cut off at back to back 12 hour billing days last evening. Finished up the last 990 this morning. Did some odds and ends, have an appointment at 10 and then I am done. Had a client stop in yesterday to pick up payroll and I told him I was waist deep in non-profit work with the deadline on the 15th. And he says, "so this is like a ghost April 15th". Well put, my friend!

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Twenty-five 990s down, 5 extended and 2 to go. Like someone else said, this is as bad as April 14/15.

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core_emoticon_group_default That's... user friendly.  I'll see what I can do about that.  

My 2nd generation...

We really may have too much time on our hands...

I have a 990 due on Friday. I did the 990 about 8 years ago until the org went in another direction. They have a new Director now. They sent a Request for Proposal to prepare the 990 for their fiscal year ending in June 2014 on 10 Feb 2015. They got no response. The new director called me, desperate, so I quoted a new price. And I let her know that the 990 is due on May 15th, if it has been properly extended.... Tuesday, she asks if we can meet *next* week. No, I am on vacation. Yesterday? She says can we meet sooner, but.... She just suffered a detached retina and will not be available... Sometimes, you just never know what might happen. Rich

​thank you for taking my quick answer deeper, I agree with what you say.

Karen Hawkins was one tough cookie. If you've ever seen her in person on watched one of her webinars, you couldn't help but feel that she didn't like you, didn't trust you, and was just waiting for you to do something wrong. Maybe it was just a personality thing where she came across that way, or maybe it was a power thing. I was shocked to read that she actually complimented tax pros in her farewell message, but even there she couldn't resist the parting shot by reminding us to stay on the straight and narrow. I am happy to see her and her attitude go. Hopefully she will be replaced by someone who treats us as stakeholders in tax administration, as valuable contributors to the IRS's work, instead of dishonest, incompetent cheats. Instead of supporting us in our role, Hawkins was just waiting for anyone to make a mistake so she could pounce.

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Good Luck and Good Riddance. Don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. I can only hope that your time on the future federal retirement dole is short. Demonizing the work I do and trying to *always* lump me together with the criminals that your office did so little to pursue.... Just go. Rich