self prepared return/efile question

[geekgirldany]

I won't do them either. Like Sandy said all or nothing

Here is a little story if you want to read....

When I first started out I worked for a older fellow who had a customer who was an employee of the IRS. She had her return prepared by them but for some reason did not want them to efile it. I forgot how it was something about she worked there and they would prepare for it her. I don't know.
Anyways she came in one day and asked me to have him efile her return and how much would he charge. He was out in his garage doing something. So here I went to ask him about it. I had no idea. It was pouring rain. He told me no that he had to prepare the return and charge was what it always had been. Told her that. SHe got pretty mad. She had been coming to him for years and did not understand why he wanted to charge her that. I went back and forth three times. She left mad.
He came in and said "well what do you think I should have efiled it". I said "no but you could have come in and told her yourself.".... I was standing there soaking wet and my first time dealing with a angry customer.

[Bees Knees]

My wife use to do the books for an auto repair shop. Their fee for working on cars was $45 per hour. If the customer worked on it first, the fee was $90 per hour.

I think we need to have the same fee structure. If they do their own tax return and want us to touch it in any way (review it, efile it, do the part they don't understand, etc.), the fee is double.

[Black Bart]

Erchess,

...find out whether you have to do these people and what the latest rules are concerning your fees for them versus your regular fees. There could be laws in your State or IRS Policies. I don't believe that NC or the IRS require me to do these clients and since I went out on my own no one has asked me to, but I actually would...

Lordy, Lordy, son. Think of yourself. You don't owe these chiselers anything and you don't have to file their self-screwed up returns. I can't of any way that anybody could make me file their return if I didn't want to (and I'm certainly not doing one of those half-me/half-somebody else overhaul jobs). You just tell them you don't do that; then they can walk, drop dead, pull a gun, whatever, but you're still not doing it.

[LawrenceGR]

Once upon a time

many years ago when E-file was new, a guy wanted me to do this. I didn't have many clients back in those days so I said I would do it for the E-File fee($10 back then). By the time I keyed in all the information I should have just done the whole return. As it turned out there was an error of about $500 I found and I couldn't do enough overrides to get the thing through. I told the guy what happened gave him back his $10, pointed out the error and I didn't get as much as a thanks for trying. My policy now is, I either do it all or I don't do it.