GLJEANNE

That's smart of them. Perhaps I'll remind my procrastinators or that next year!

The people who wait until April to get their paperwork to us always makes me wonder - have they never thought about the fact that by April we're overworked, over-stressed, sleepless and in a fog? And that's who you want doing your tax return?? I wouldn't want to do my own return at this point! I have one major return left to do, but I'm having a hard time getting started. It's always horrid - Sch C, most years bad bookkeeping, owner is clueless, etc. It takes so many hours over several days (waiting on him or his bookkeeping service to reply to questions or supply missing info). Last night I was thinking, just make sure the W3 matches the P&L, and take the rest at face value. I don't have it in me to go through his GL and fix all the errors. And by this stage of the game, I'm firmly in "the hell with this" territory.

Hope they both have mild cases, and hope you can stay healthy!!

That's always been my assumption, when I see huge stacks of useless of forms and worksheets from a previous accountant, that's it a way to justify their fees. I print what's needed. As other's have said, it's a pain to go through and uncheck all the stupid things ATX think we should want. But we kill enough trees with the important stuff. If it's just the pdf for them to review, I sometimes leave in the junk just to save time.

Last year and this one it's been so bad. Today is the worst, I quit counting after it crashed a dozen times before 12:30. The portal is pretty unstable also.

I've only been in the office for about 90 minutes, and ATX has already crashed 3 times, and lost connection to the portal 3 times - and not the same 3 times! It's going to be a long day.... Make that 4 times.

#6 made me laugh! But wow, those are some toxic folks. Glad the husband gets it, but since he wouldn't step in before it got out of hand, I'm glad you fired them for next year.

Brother MFC-8890 DW here. Can't say there's never been issues, but only once have I needed a repair person, to replace.... some part that needs to be replaced every 5+ years. LOL. It does seem to be overheating lately - but who can blame it, during tax season? - but if it goes I'll replace it with the same model, or close to it.

What a little cutie!!

I made such a boneheaded mistake yesterday. Though at worst it will a generate a couple WTH? letters from the states, I think. I spent the most of the day working on two returns from hell. This one, the young TP had moved from MN to WI, and first there was all kinds of confusion with her two Sch Cs in the organizer, home offices and all. This is only the second year she's had to file her taxes, so she's still getting used to it. Anyway, tons of back of and forth emails. And I have a clear memory of changing the address on Main Info, but I'm guessing that was one of the many times the program crashed, and I didn't remember to check it when I re-opened. So 2 Cs, 2 HOs 2 part-year resident state returns - all showing her old MN address! And I didn't catch it until I went to print a mailing slip this morning, after everything had been e-filed. I'm laughing, but kicking myself too. What a dumb thing, but I don't generally even look at the top of 1040 once I've initially entered everything. And of course, by the time any agency wants to contact her, the forwarding order will have expired and their letters will get returns. I'll file a change of address with the IRS, but I'm thinking I should file state amendments at some point, just to show the correct change of address on the Cs, but not sure how soon to do it. Unless anyone has a better suggestion?

Ditto

Yep. Mine didn't move to Transmitted to Agency for hours yesterday, so that seemed like an ATX problem. But then it's still sitting there this morning, so maybe it's IRS.

My Feb was pretty normal, but I feel like a lot of people are waiting longer than usual now. I'm afraid they got used to extended seasons, and now are procrastinating more than ever.

I'm going to try again, using different fields on the Perm file. hopefully if we use a date field, it should link correctly. I was bummed that I can't link adresses to my stupid local form. ATX error, something about not being able to use links on a detail sheet. Sigh.

Sigh, first efile with this got rejected. And another one showed errors before being able to create. All on the dates. tried various formats, nothing worked. Bummer, it was an great solution! I'm going to keep the info on the Perm sheet, at least it will be easy to copy/paste next year. And it does keep the long ID numbers, so that's half the battle!

Ugh, I had one of those a few years back. I forget how many states, but I could work on it, but not print. Try to print, it crashes. Sadly, I don't recall for sure my solution, other than making sure everything else was shutdown, and restarting ATX only to work on that return. My take away was, dump the client (there were other reasons) and never have another one with so many states.

Same here! I'm wondering if this might also be able to solve one of my other pet peeves, of home address info that doesn't roll over to our local Property Tax refund return. Every stinking year, have to enter all the address info, even though it can only be claimed on the filers home, so it's 99% of the time going to be the same address as the 1040. Way to go Abby!! I too have my best ideas in the shower, but I seldom remember them by the time I'm done.

That just sucks, I hate companies that screw employees over this way. There's a way to do so he only pays his own share of SE, but that lets the IRS know the company is doing something illegal. So if he's afraid of being fired, I think you're stuck with treating it as Sch C, and just call him a Construction company. He wouldn't have been tracking any job expenses, but maybe he can go back thru his bank records and reconstruct the costs of any safety equipment, tools, uniforms, etc. that he had to buy.

Yes, the perfumes and the smokers are horrible! And they can stink up your whole file drawer. I have asthma and both of those can set me off, so those ones get copied asap and then sealed in an envelope.

YES! Lot of state info I'd like to see rolled over too. I'm keeping a list, but I don't know if it does any good to suggest. I think last year I sent it to my sales rep and asked her to pass it on to who ever.

I seem to have gotten a lot of the plastic binder/envelope things. Not sure what they're called, but they're just a little too wide to fit in my file drawer, plus I'm not paying to mail back crap like that with their tax return. And yeah, the ones who don't open their mail and give me all the envelopes. Or include tons of stuff I don't need, often things they don't even need. But better too much than too little, sort of.

Yeah, sorry, I let every call go to voicemail unless it's a known number.

It's too bad the IRS couldn't create some process for this, as I'm sure it's common with unmarried and divorced parents. Some way for one parent to opt out and the other opt in. But at this point, not much we can do. If Congress ever gets its act together (ha!), and extends the ACTC, I hope they do so with a better process.

That's crazy! I'm sure that MN Revenue will be just thrilled to learn they have to paper-process all those returns. I'd call them and see if they have any suggestions, or even if they can pressure ATX to add the form.

Sorry about your friend, Catherine, may his memory be for a blessing.