Longest tax season I have ever experienced

[ALBliberal]

And I have been doing this since the mid 80s.

Very very tough to see how people of wealth are taxed at lower brackets than people that earn a living and have wages pensions and social security.

I do my best for all of them.

Hardest part? When people have owed. And my small client list (semi retired) lean liberal.

It really hurts with the “war” going on.

[Walleye]

1. The Republicans keep firing people from the IRS. They don't like the Investigative department

[ALBliberal]

2. Have felt many repercussions from that this year.

They refuse paper check mailing for instance when some people just don’t want to give them their banking information
And to fix it is not easy

[moonscape]

4. I gave my banking info in the

past. Didn’t want to this year but figured they have it already …

This is the 1st in my 75 years I resented paying taxes, and I’ve paid since I was 16 yo.

Painful.

[D_Master81]

13. I just overrode it

Our software would have an override on that and say “client prefers paper check”. I don’t like how they’re doing it at all just taking money from someone’s account.

[ALBliberal]

14. Yep they demand a bank account I don't like it

But they have all our information anyway

Hope this post was helpiful

[ALBliberal]

3. As CPAs, we have a tenuous relationship with the IRS

They rely on us. We were rely on them. They increasingly rely on us for accuracy and responsibility for returns e filed. We rely on them for processing and communication so firiing the roughly 10000 agents is not good for us. Nor our clients.

[PeaceWave]

5. How are folks' returns this year relative to past years?

[ALBliberal]

6. We have some success with social security "deductions"

And extra senior “deductions” but only with those at the lower end of income.

Not so much with people over 150K that retired.

Don’t quiz me my brain is fried. One more extension to go.

[PeaceWave]

8. No quiz. Just hoping you treat yourself to an ice cold beer tomorrow!

[ALBliberal]

9. That my friend will be this afternoon! :))

[ALBliberal]

7. No tax on social security IMO a fallacy

Unless you don’t have alot of income.

[PeaceWave]

10. So true. Also, the deduction for overtime only applies on a weekly, not daily basis.

With Trump, everything is read the fine print.

[ALBliberal]

11. All lies

Even the no tax on tips will hurt esp parents with kids that need earned income to get that earned income credit refund. Which a lot of time will exceed any federal withholding they might have.

I think we will see some repercussions from working families on this.

[PeaceWave]

12. We need more CPA input on what will actually help American families...

When it comes to taxes, folks' eyes gloss over...until tax season. Then, all of a sudden, they realize how the actual policies affect them.