End of Tax season 2025

[rcooley25]

15 more days not counting extensions.

I will be thinking about all of you boys and girls hard at wrk while I am enjoying my Fire Ball.

[sjrcpa]

Thanks for the moral/immoral support.

[IRonMaN]

Thinking about us - and laughing - while you are enjoying your Fireball

[Taxprohere]

Probably won't have time before April 15 to take a peek at my Venmo balance and business Zelle payments, though I know the pile of paper checks are piling up in my desk drawer; takes too long to mobile deposit (you're too close...get closer...you're too close...get closer!)    Wonder how much Fireball I could stock up on.

[Frustrated-in-IL · Accepted solution]

You don't have to be retired to enjoy Fireball.  I am still hard at work at 5:45 am, just now thinking about calling it a night for a few hours of sleep, and have been enjoying Fireball all night.  The tax returns seem a little simpler to complete the more Fireball I consume. 

[IRonMaN]

" takes too long to mobile deposit (you're too close...get closer...you're too close...get closer!)  "

I hear Fireball helps with that problem.

[Frustrated-in-IL]

Fireball is a miracle cure.  In fact, it is contagious in a good way.  The more I drink, the prettier the women in the bar get.  

[IRonMaN]

Speaking of Fireball and women, did you ever go out for a second date with Jenny?  Or did she cut back on her Fireball intake and she thought you weren't quite as good looking as she first thought?

[Frustrated-in-IL]

Jenny's work hours and my work hours conflict.  Maybe after tax time I'll call her again.  I misplaced her number but I know the wall where I can find it.  The only problem with Jenny is to reach her I need a dime and an old-fashion pay phone.

[IRonMaN]

We can start a "Dimes for Jenny" fund to help you out with that.  

[Frustrated-in-IL]

I'd rather you start a "Fireball for Frustrated-in-IL" fund.

[IRonMaN]

The fundraising effort for that one might be a little more difficult. 🤔

[Frustrated-in-IL]

I figured the fundraising would be more difficult.  Never fear.  I have a backup plan:

https://www.foodandwine.com/fireball-whisky-lifetime-supply-giveaway-11701424

I just have to figure a way around their age requirement.  

Don't tell Brother Cooley - he probably meets the age requirement!

[IRonMaN]

You're a tax preparer - the stress of the job ages us faster than the rest of the population.  Send a picture of yourself, I'm sure they will bite that you are over 90.

[rcooley25]

I am not 90 yet but on the first of March I celebrated the 60th anniversary of my 21st

[Frustrated-in-IL]

I have a calculator that says that is 91!

[rcooley25]

Your  machine is wrong I am 81, 91 will get here soon enough.

[rcooley25]

5.45 am? In my younger days that was the time I was just getting in from a date.

[Frustrated-in-IL]

The last two nights. I left the office at 9:00 am and 6:45 am.  I am feeling it today.  Let's see long long I last tonight.

I'm a one person shop in a bank building so I am easy to find, and to disturb.  Between knocks on the door, texts, email, and phone calls, the only time I can get anything done is from like 9:00 pm on.

I should track the amount of time I spend daily responding to "is my return done?".  Well over an hour a day.  If I didn't do that, I might be able to get some tax returns done.

[rcooley25]

It appears that I was behind the times when I was still preparing tax returns. Except for people who were out of state my tax returns were all by appointment only. As I have gotten older I have learn that more and more preparers are doing the returns like you do and that is by having their clients drop or mail the information in.

[IRonMaN]

Clients always assume that we work 24 hours a day and we should be on call 24 hours a day - the equivalent of dialing 911.  I have never heard of anybody dying because they couldn't reach their tax preparer at their exact moment of "crisis".  We don't answer phones after 5:00 pm or on the weekends.  That's our quiet time to try and get something done.  If the Pope calls at 5:01, he better be ready to leave a message because I'm not answering.