Things I Hate About Tax Season / Please Add Yours

[FEDUKE404]

Chuckle

I hope Rita is giving a prize for the best one, and IMO, this is it! Fell on the floor, laughing.

Heck, I did not have enough time to laugh.

I had to grab my own camera and run to the curbside to document some tax items before that big ole truck with the funny trap door in the back hauled away my "deductions."

FE

[RitaB]

The things you learn here

Rita B's garbage.... From TN to VA... Lawd, chile, take care of that would ya? The stench!

Yeah, my car could be on an episode of Hoarders, and I didn't even know that I was sitting on a goldmine of charitable donations. I feel like I've won the lottery.

[Possi]

Lol

Yeah, my car could be on an episode of Hoarders, and I didn't even know that I was sitting on a goldmine of charitable donations. I feel like I've won the lottery.

LOL You are killin' me!

Let me add a couple...
People who write things off to the rental when I know they are not putting top of the line new appliances in the rental property. He just separated from his wife. I know he needed new appliances.
AND... people who pick things up off the trash pile, donate it to charity, and write it off. (Well, they TRIED to write it off...)
AND ... people who "eat paper and poop money" and give NOTHING to charity...

ifeelbetter

[DMICPA]

Yup, as good as cash

Got a client several years ago that was recommended by a rather bad client but I was trying to please everyone. You know this is not going to get better.

Self employed handyman, trucker, swap meets.

Call him and tell him the return is ready and the fee was such and such.

He shows up to get the return and, instead of a check, he brought me a goat. Yes, a live goat that likes to butt you with his head.

Said it was as good as cash.

My partner ended up taking the goat to his ranch. We used the goat as our office paper shredder.

Did not do the client again.

[joanmcq]

I'd take a goat! You should see my lawn/field since we've gone from no rain at all for two months to a few days of rain followed by warmth & sunshine. knee deep in places.

but you have to have two, or they get lonely.

[Snaggletooth]

Spare Time

118) I'm going to fax you my brokerage and bank statements so you'll have my taxes all computed in your spare time before our appointment.

[RitaB]

My goat

118) I'm going to fax you my brokerage and bank statements so you'll have my taxes all computed in your spare time before our appointment.

My goat is stationed at the fax machine for this purpose.

312) Feeling pretty good about the day getting in my car. Turning around to back out, I see the two Wal-Mart bags of receipts for that couple with four rentals and 3,143 - $4 prescriptions. Luckily, they have the little square AND the cash register receipt AND the drug interaction warning for all. That really gets my goat.

[Jesse]

My goat is stationed at the fax machine for this purpose.

312) ..... I see the two Wal-Mart bags of receipts for that couple with four rentals and 3,143 - $4 prescriptions. Luckily, they have the little square AND the cash register receipt AND the drug interaction warning for all. That really gets my goat.

Too much info - but one has to wonder, why so much Viagra?!

[Gary2]

AND... people who pick things up off the trash pile, donate it to charity, and write it off. (Well, they TRIED to write it off...)

I see no problem with this. Just remember to include the value of the items in income on their Schedule C. There must be a business code somewhere for dumpster diving.

[SueBaby]

I'd take a goat! You should see my lawn/field since we've gone from no rain at all for two months to a few days of rain followed by warmth & sunshine. knee deep in places.

but you have to have two, or they get lonely.

We have only one goat (Millie) and she is a wonderful lawn mower. The back yard is 2 acres and she is fenced in and we don't have to ever bush hog it anymore.

She never seems to be lonely; we have 3 pot belly pigs, chickens, and ducks. (Save on gas too)

[joanmcq]

I want to get some chickens since my now elderly dogs don't seem interested in chasing the neighbor's chickens that come over the fence to forage in my compost pile. Last year my back yard was so flooded from all the rain, I had two ducks living in my puddle that turned into a pond, or maybe a lake. We've had so little rain until now, I didn't even need to worry about the grass.

Your pigs are probably the goat's company; maybe my dogs would be as well? I have about 2.5 acres as field and more I consider 'yard'. I borrowed a brush hog from a neighbor the last two years, but he moved back to Shasta and took the mower with him

[manyhappyreturns]

Clients who think taxes are something you get, not something you pay. Those are the ones who give me a blank stare or puzzled look when I tell them how much they owe me, then ask if they can pay me when they get their refund (or rather their free money from the government, because of course taxes are something you get, not something you pay).

[FredcpaAZ]

why they are just now

when the clients tells me they have had there information on the kitchen table for a month ready to go, but just now get it to me yesterday and wonder why they may be in line for an extension, or that I am rushed, tired and little bit gumpy, I feel like telling them this happens every year at the same time, nothing has changed

[RitaB]

Pulling out all the stops

344) State of the art W-2's from TN government employees. Impossible to open, but you get free carbon paper.

348) Glue on the SSA-1099. First thing I do is roll it up in two little glue balls. I miss the trash pretty often, and my chair is hanging on the fly due to same.

[bgiez]

Yes!!! Those darn SSA statements drive me nuts too. They always look as if the client ripped them open with their teeth.