NT / Simplied Return

[RitaB]

"Hello, Rita, this is 85 year-old Taxpayer, I was wondering how much you charge for a simplified return?"

(Discuss, discuss, blah, blah.)

"Well, my return is very simplified, but let me tell you: I screwed it up royally for two years in a row, and my husband says you are doing it from now on or he's trading me in."

Best call ever. Crying.

[BOB W]

Whenever a client comes in and says, " it will be simple this year ", I always tell them, "famous last words". I have never seen a simple return except for a single person with one W-2 of $50,000.

How about a Dependents return with 8 W-2s totaling $4,500 age 19 and not in college. What a shock to the parents. So much for simple................... Glad the parents return wasn't done first.

[RitaB]

You got that right

Whenever a client comes in and says, " it will be simple this year ", I always tell them, "famous last words". I have never seen a simple return except for a single person with one W-2 of $50,000.

How about a Dependents return with 8 W-2s totaling $4,500 age 19 and not in college. What a shock to the parents. So much for simple................... Glad the parents return wasn't done first.

You are so right. Every time they say "simple" I add $20 to the bill on principle.

[JohnH]

You got that right. And when they says "It's so simple I could do it myself", I get suspicioius that they're hiding a time bomb somewhere in their reporting and they just want to have me to blame if it blows up in their face.