May 15 due date change for storm disaster affected counties

[lisaFTC]

Lacerte sent an Alert on 1/17/2023 re: CA and IRS deadline extended to May 15 for certain counties related to the storm disaster.

Today, is 1/20/2023 and Lacerte has not sent another alert stating how the program will be treating the due date of May 15 on their instruction letters and estimated tax payments.

I called the  Lacerte rep today and she stated Lacerte will NOT be changing the due dates on the instruction letter or estimated tax payments nor will Lacerte be offering a checkbox for the option to change the due date. She stated the government agencies, IRS and FTB, will look at the zip code and determine if the taxpayer resides in, or the business is in, an affected county. If the taxpayer's zip code is in an affected county and the taxpayer files their return and makes their payments on May 15, then no penalties or interest will be assessed.

Hopefully, Lacerte will send an alert as soon as possible to inform everyone how their program will be handling this new due date for instruction letter purposes.

[amec]

The S corp program is now allowing me to use the May 15 date (manually entered) for the 1st quarter 2023 ES and the balance due (it would not allow me to enter dates after the deadlines before).

Would you trust this or have concerns about it working properly?

[lmscpa]

The IRS will allow future payments using their Direct Pay system to be scheduled but you can only schedule 2 payments at a time. Once you've scheduled 2 payments you have to wait 24 hours before you can schedule 2 more. It took me 3 days to schedule the payments for my client that had a balance due and 4 estimated tax payments.

At least California allows you to schedule multiple payments in one time.

Since many of my clients fall into that category, I'm going to have to spend lots more manual time because Lacerte doesn't want to provide us with a tax program that works properly for this year's tax laws.

I feel completely abandoned by this company to which I have been a faithful customer for more than 30 years!

[ericinsb]

Sounds like Lacerte and ProSeries just don't give a **bleep** about us preparers.

The damned letters are wrong on their face!    April 18 is not May 15 !!!!

FIX IT !!!!!!!

[amec]

And it's October 15 now.

[sjrcpa]

Now the due date is October 15.

Still a no go in the software I presume.

IRS: May 15 tax deadline extended to Oct. 16 for disaster area taxpayers in California, Alabama and ...

[abctax55]

Susan.... it's the 16th, not the 15th 😉   

So, I'm officially taking the rest of 'normal' tax season off !

[SFSTaxPrep]

During Peak Covid, they only extended the deadline to July and then May.  In 2022, they wouldn't even give an extension, even though things were obviously still not back to normal.

I guess since it's only 3 states, they figure they can allow it to be extended, but October is kind of ridiculous.

I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, as the phrase goes, but I assure you that none of my clients were really impacted by these storms enough, if at all, to warrant extending all the deadlines for filing and payments until October.

[sfmeliss]

I think we all know this has nothing to do with storm victims, this has to do with a back log at the IRS and they are giving themselves an extension.  Maybe it will be October or maybe after fire season it will get moved to January, it's the wild west, literally.  

[sjrcpa]

Anna - yes it is October 16. I have April 15, October 15, etc. burned into my brain.

[abctax55]

Yeah, me too.  It happens after so many decades of this profession