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"Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause said in a call Wednesday that the agency will give these employees the option to return to their jobs by April 14 — the day before the tax filing season deadline — according to IRS employees familiar with the call. The IRS also sent an email Wednesday afternoon, notifying the approximately 7,000 probationary employees it recently fired. “You are receiving this email as one of approximately 7,000 probationary employees who were separated from service and have been reinstated in compliance with recent court orders,” the email states. “At this time, while you remain on administrative leave, you will soon receive instructions for how to return on full-time duty by April 14." It will be interesting to see how many actually return to work? I am somewhat encouraged that they are following the court orders.

Perhaps they are watching children closer than adults because of the credits. Any time we have had a rejection because of a DOB, it has been a child.

Decades ago when I was at Block, they told us the SSN + 1st 4 letters of last name -- and for CHILDREN (dependents?), birthdates. The only reject I ever had for birthdates was for children: new client with 2 kids, and I switched the birthdates. Reject. Made the correction and e-filed.

In addition to the depreciation report for the current year, it also gives you the depreciation for next tax year.

I miss my Brother printer. When it died I replaced it with an HP, which works well enough but can be very annoying as well. Checking in with the mothership to make sure I'm using "real" HP cartridges, deciding to stop and recalibrate halfway through a print job, waiting up to a minute before printing in case I decide to override which paper feed to use (when only one has any paper in it). They are "improving the user experience" to the point of wanting to take a sledgehammer to the thing on occasion. But the print quality - once it deigns to start - is terrific, as is the speed, and the ease of duplex printing.

I had my sister in law's birthday off by one day and by one year too! For almost 50 years I thought she and my brother were born the same year but is actually a year younger. Their return has never rejected since e-filing began.

I've been doing this for 30 years. I've had 2 printers - both brothers. They are the best.

Oh, I use Verifyle and love it as do many of my clients. But a surprising number of them still want a printed client copy of their returns. When I began my own practice I used and still do use twin pocket folders with the year label on the outside, my card inside and copies on the right with acknowledgements and my invoice on the left. So many long time folks still want those folders because that's how they keep their records. Of course, most of my clients are 'of a certain age' and the younger ones (most, but not all) just retain digital copies. One year I tried gray folders. Didn't go over well. My business cards and stationary are light gray and wine. My office is about 99% digital. I never keep paper copies of client data either downloading the pdf copies from Verifyle and/or scanning provided records with my trusty ScanSnap 1500!

Would be helpful for taxpayers if the employees who would be staffing the phones or otherwise interacting with TPs had an option to return before the 14th. Too late to help anyone with questions on filing. But yes, at least they're complying somewhat.

Seeing is Believing.......

I had one rejected already this year because the birthdate was wrong. We had entered a 3 instead of a 5 so the efile grabs that right away.

The IRS does match birthdates, if the return is e-filed.

When you enter the items on the 4562 input , the program creates the depreciation report. You can see the report when you view the return.

Second on Brother printers. Cheap and you can buy non Brother toner cartridge's and drums on the cheap. We use LD Products for replacement toner and drums.

A trust beneficiary is a related party to the trust.

Basis = Beginning Basis (0) + net income (18,290) - distributions (?) +/- other adjustments (if any) = 18,290. Software is correct.

Not always, I was reviewing past three returns for new clients. Prior preparer had been using 12/31/xx for husband and 12/31/yy for wife which is carried to front page of the Oregon returns. Years of birth were correct but not dates, and they were accepted for e-file by fed and state. Also had another case where dates and year of birth were off for both spouses, but had been accepted in the past by fed and state.