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  1. I'm not going to send before the 12th. I can't count on no more new clarifications of laws, reprogramming, etc. In fact, the 12th will probably crash the IRS computers! I might e-file on the 13th. But, yes, you can send to your software company when they're ready for holding until the 12th. I will probably have two different partnerships shortly and two different S-corporations to keep me busy after I finish payroll taxes/W-2s/1099s.
    3 points
  2. I completely understand everyone's frustration and I'm with you. I started doing this as a side business over 25 years ago when I began getting referrals from family and friends. Over the past few years I've gotten rid of all non1040 clients. Sixty is right around the corner and I keep debating will each year be my last. My worsening health since 2014 has only exacerbated the frustration. As someone who has been health conscious my entire life it amazes me how many people lead unhealthy life styles without significant complications.
    2 points
  3. Thanks, Max, for the reference. Curious that it isn't on the forms and has to date not been required. Guess we needed more work to do
    1 point
  4. For anyone that wants to confirm the number I provided, it is under paragraph 3, just after the SSA address. https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/hallex/I-01/I-1-4-2.html
    1 point
  5. I've done it, too, skimmed above too quickly and typed the wrong name!
    1 point
  6. I love the clients that say, "Can't you look up my [insert mortgage interest or tuition or...here] on your computer?" as if I know their personal bank records and stuff !!
    1 point
  7. 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.
    1 point
  8. I'm only 60 but I feel you! I've already refused to take anyone that's had PPP, EIP (except one existing client and she only got the 10k 'free' loan). My international client is ex-patriating soon. Anyone that quits me, hey it's fine. I figure the computer I just bought will be my last.
    1 point
  9. I sure hope they give us a new file-by deadline as well. This year, I will be notifying all my out of town clients that they need to find a local preparer. I'll also tell my larger (Sch C) businesses to look for someone else. I am walking toward the sign that says "reTIRED." It will be a slow walk, and I'll keep my small, easy local clients. But I'm so tired. This business isn't fun anymore. They can blame the pandemic all day long, but it ain't the pandemic. The IRS has been beating us up for a long time. Congress doesn't move in time for anything. Nobody does their job anymore, they just blame the other guy... or "the pandemic." So tired of it all. Donna Downer
    1 point
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