Reason #987 to Terminate a Client

[dascpa]

The Ferengi have 285 Rules of Acquisition. I am now up to 987 reason to terminate a client, and yes, maybe I'll write a book.

You tell clients not to take pictures of documents - blurry, bad angle, thumb in the way. Of course they don't listen.  I misread last digit as an 8 instead of a 6 on the picture. Client calls up, very beligerant about the error and wants me to fix. Okay. There's no change in tax. Welll I did a recalcuation and I'm overpaying by $0.25. I don't want to pay the government (and this facist T...p) any more than they deserve. So I reply I don't deal in cents. If you look at the tax return it's whole dollars and there is no change. That didn't suffice. Client was nasty.

So I taped a quarter to a piece of paper that said to please find another preparer next year.Who needs this crap........

[IRonMaN]

And sometimes those pictures get e-mailed in the body of the e-mail and it takes ten minutes to get it to print in a form that actually fits on a page and is legible.  I have told IronWoman many times - does anybody ever try to read what they send?  If they can't read it, how am I going to read it.

[The_AntiTax_Man]

@dascpa   yeah, I know.  The rule is:  No cell phone pics.  Scan and send via email, drop off in person in the secure drop box by the door, or take your chances by mailing via the US Mail.

It slows the processing of the return for that client, but I have other things to do.

[IRonMaN]

Just as a follow up.  A client just sent pics of about a half dozen W-2s ------------- not one of the W-2s are clear enough that you can actually enter the whole W-2 into the software. 🙄

[dascpa]

Enter them so client owes millions. When they get the return or the payment due letter let them freak out. I read what I thought it said on the pictures.  They were so blurry I did my best.

[IRonMaN]

I was kinda thinking along the same lines.  If it was closer to April 15th I would definitely do it.