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Try this: Call IRS e-file Payment Services 24/7 at 888-353-4537 to inquire about or cancel your payment, but please wait 7 to 10 days after your return was accepted before calling.

I think she is saying they got the credit 10 years ago and stopped making the annual payment on their tax returns and now want to pay what they owe. @Catherine is asking if the 5405 is still a valid form for this and if there is a penalty or interest that needs to be calculated when they pay back the remaining balance due. The following commentary is about why the IRS did not follow up after all this time if they missed the repayment. At least that is how I read the OP. Tom Longview, TX

If you think the client is lying, then by all means you should decline. That is your call not mine. I don't think a behemoth of a truck is preposterous for a ranch. 2 tons of feed in a trailer going up hill....on the freeway....at 70 mph. It takes a truck. A man sized, full power, get through the mud truck. I just wish we could plug in an app like the insurance companies do and at the end of they year it would spit out a mileage log so we don't have to guess where it was parked and driven. Maybe the next Acting Commissioner (fifth, sixth...I lost count) can make a rule that they have to have that device to get a mileage deduction... how cool would that be? Pipe dreaming Tom Longview, TX

Kathy, I think this is spot on along with the recommendation of management of workload. I have been thinking about this for several days now after an encounter I had with one of my 5's. She called and said I had forgotten to include the payment voucher for NYS. I wasn't sure how I might have missed that but said I would send her a PDF of the return and she could print it out. She said Ok and that she would go the library and print it. I sent the file and got a call a day later. She was all upset because it was going to cost a lot to print the return ( all she needed was the voucher not the whole return) Well after more allegations of not paying attention, etc. I explained that all her tax docs are on one side of the folder and the returns, e-file docs, and cover letter are on the other. I hear some ruffling of papers and sure enough there was the voucher in with the return all by itself. This all occurred on April 14. Thanks for allowing me to rant and for the very wise and diplomatic wording of the termination letter.

And by training, I am an engineer. I know the breed very well indeed. There are some who get lost in the weeds and fixate on unimportant details that make no difference whatsoever (worked with some of those as an engineer, too, and they're just as insufferable there). It comes down to having to be right, whether they know what they are talking about or not, and not trusting the expertise of anyone who is not them. I don't want a client who does not respect my expertise, and any engineer, at this point, starts on on probation as 90%+ of all the disrespecting clients over 30 years have been engineers.

I am thinking about doing all my business in the "other office" down the hall, and use it exclusively, that will resolve the issue.

When I read posts like some here in this topic and others, and I think back to the workload I endured in my earlier career, I worry about some of you and about us as a profession overall. I haven't made nearly the amount I could have for whatever talents I have, but I have made a concerted effort for a healthier work-life balance and am happier because of those choices. This work can be extremely rewarding, but I believe that it shouldn't be at the expense of our health and well-being. I wish you all well, hope that you recover quickly, and are able to enjoy some quality time away from the office. I also hope to see you here in the off-season as we continue to work at a less hectic pace.

I wouldn't wait to call. According to Federal News Network, 20,000 IRS employees have accepted the second round of buyout offers. Supposedly, they will start leaving on April 28th.