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I did when I first started out. After a couple of years I was no longer comfortable offering to my clients. E-file took off about the time I gave it up and refunds started coming in 2-3 weeks. The cost of a 2-3 week loan just seemed exorbitant to me and I felt yukky being part of the transaction. Tom Longview, TX

The people who need the money the most end up paying outrageous fees to get their money back a couple of weeks early. Never offered them.

No, agree with Catherine, and it isn't something my clientele would ask for or need. Heck, some of them don't trust direct deposit and want to wait for that check in the mail.

"That's going to be REAL popular. Asking the whole board for all their personal details. " Absolutely not required, and in most cases, should not be done. Ask them to register (and manage) their own data, then provide the ID. Keeps the person from handling the entity aspect from having to take on managing each individual and allows the individual to enter data as they see fit. In my own case, I could have done it since I know all the data, but it is not my place to determine what information each person wants to make public. The side, and actually important bene is it is up to them to manage their own data should it ever change. I assume the data will eventually leak to the dark web, if not to a public site (just as it would be foolish to consider one's SSN private). I do not want to worry about more than my own personal data.

If you want to dive into the details, there was a discussion about this topic started by schirallicpa on March 14th.

The exception to this would be when you accrue post liquidation expenses, for example legal and accounting fees.

I have shown zeros when I was faced wiht this.

Never have, never will. Cost to clients is totally outrageous.

They come back online in early January for some business returns first. As long as you define "early" as "first half" meaning up to the 15th.

Our condo association just handed this to me to take care of it.