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  1. One day when I was feeling blue, someone said to me, "Cheer up, things could be worse!" So I cheered up, and sure enough, things did get worse!
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  2. That's my thinking too. How could it get worse? We've been battered around like a ping pong ball at a championship tournament. I was planning on making this my last fulltime year as the work is not as pleasant as years past, but with all the time spent inside last year it may have benefited mental acuity, and kept us busy not dwelling on all the negatives in our world. I will still try to slow down but I am finding it difficult shedding clients, who goes and who stays, so many are like family and friends. Knowing it's time is a good reason, and with all the additional work, clicks, schedules, and requirements it just makes sense. Sounds like I'm trying to convince myself.
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  3. And then there’s CA, with their new health care credit....
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  4. You make some good points, Sara, and I am sure that is part of it. But I agree with Possi that the attitude of the IRS towards preparers, and the difficulty of getting information or resolving issues in a timely fashion contributes to the retirement fever I have been suffering from the last couple of years. My husband is a bit older than I am, and has been retired for a while now. I have hobbies that I have not participated in for a couple of years, books I want to read and new hobbies I would like to take up. I want to travel while I still can (although that isn't looking so hot for the next year either.) But mostly I am just tired of being expected to audit returns for the IRS because they don't have the time or the money or the staff to do it. That is not what I signed up for. If it weren't for the cost of health insurance, I probably would have retired a few years ago.
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  5. One reason that everyone is so down right now is that we just got through the tax season that never ended. We couldn't do much in April because we were too busy taking calls about the stimulus payment and business loans. July was just like the usual April. Immediately after it was time for extensions, and October was just like April. Then it was time for CE. In between there were many more calls from clients who needed help with loans, retirement distributions, new W4s that are incomprehensible, and on and on. We never got a break, and for those who took a few days off there was no travel so we never really got away from it all. Another reason is that there were so many changes to the tax code, and changes to the changes, that our brains are overloaded. We now have to take update courses to the updates we already took. One poster said that she just didn't feel competent going into the coming season, and I think that feeling haunts many of us. Hang in there. We've mastered huge changes before and will again. The new heads of the IRS and Office of Professional Responsibility seem to hear us and to be genuinely supportive (as opposed to treating us like enemies of the gov't and their personal hit men). As the virus winds down and the IRS and congress get their acts together, things have to get better.
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