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2022 Tax Season: The Tax Season From Hell (Part 4)

To recap, in Part 1 of this series I dealt with IRS failures in the 2022 Tax Season; in Part 2, I covered what the IRS should do to fix the mess.  In Part 3, I wrote about what our … Continue reading

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If You Used IRS Direct Pay on October 20th Check Your Bank Records

I love IRS Direct Pay.  It’s a simple method to make payments to the IRS for most (but not all) taxes individuals might have.  And it works…well, it works most of the time. I saw on Twitter the following: On … Continue reading

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2022 Tax Season: The Tax Season From Hell (Part 3)

This is, perhaps, the most painful post I’ve ever written for this blog.  Why?  I’m going to go over everything our firm got wrong with this past Tax Season.  As the saying goes (Murphy’s Law), what can go wrong will … Continue reading

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Is Anyone Happy In Tax Professional Land?

Except for our four international clients on second extension and our ten clients impacted by Hurricane Ian, the 2020-2022 Tax Season is over.  I expect that within one month, we will be off filing returns until February 2023 (well, there … Continue reading

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It’s Time to Panic!

Today is September 20th. Three weeks from Monday is October 17, 2022. That’s the deadline for individual taxpayers on extension to file their tax returns (unless you’re in a federal disaster area). If you have yet to send your paperwork … Continue reading

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Depressing

TIGTA (the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration) came out this morning with its interim report on the 2022 Tax Filing Season.  I would love to report statistics that make me feel warm and fuzzy; instead, we’re left with more … Continue reading

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2022 Tax Season: The Tax Season From Hell (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this series we looked at what went wrong with the IRS.  (That post might have been shorter if I had written what went right.)  Today, let’s look at what should be done by Congress and the … Continue reading

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2022 Tax Season: The Tax Season From Hell (Part 1)

Mr. Murphy says, what can go wrong will go wrong.  This was definitely the case for the 2022 Tax Season.  In this four-part series, we’re going to cover IRS and government (Congress and the President) failures, our failures, and what … Continue reading

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The Worst Written IRS Notice Ever?

A client, living in a foreign country but who receives his mail in New Jersey (because mail to New Jersey is far more reliable than where he resides) received an IRS notice on his 2021 tax return: Your refund has … Continue reading

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IRS: On Third Thought, Let’s Grant “Relief” That Isn’t

Yesterday, I wrote a post stating the IRS was giving relief on the new Schedules K-2 and K-3.  I did that because I believed what the IRS wrote.  The IRS stated: Coming relief from certain Schedule K-2 and K-3 reporting: … Continue reading

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