I am self employed and got a letter where they pretend I didn't send a bazillion dollars with my tax return. They are graciously setting up a payment plan for taxes I have already paid, for the low low price of $250. I must respond by the 20th if I disagree. But you can't reach anyone at the IRS because they are having technical difficulties and have been since the day I got the stupid letter.
On a separate but related note, I can't even make an estimated payment while this gets sorted out because I can't get into the website. I am afraid to mail a handwritten check because they are being stolen from the mail and altered, and deposited into online bank accounts. Still working out a fraudulent check written on my business account - 200 payment altered to just under 10K. You have to fill out a police report and the word is, this is happening all over "Chicagoland." When did day to day life become so frickin' tedious????
Would it be too much to hope they are cleaning house? Yes, but I am going to fantasize about it anyway.
Bahahahahaha Ginger powers are a good thing as long as said Ginger is aware of them and knows how to use them. I'd say I'm about 75/25 on that front, old enough to know better and young enough to not care! I am not quite at the point of preparing returns yet. I work for a very OC man who we like to call a democratic socialist. He kisses the ground the IRS walks on and generally wants his preparers to never make mistakes and never get creative with preparing returns. It's difficult to learn because I came from a place of doing everything myself and now I have to have every single keystroke reviewed and re-reviewed because he doesn't want ANY mistakes going out the door. I'm thrilled to be learning from a highly intelligent person and to learn the correct way, but since I didn't come in with years of return preparing experience, he holds me back from learning!
I'd love some remote work, but I'd probably be better at the data entry prep, entering tax doc info and client info; I wouldn't be as much help with tax return preparation because the current teacher won't teach!
I almost started the EA training but realized I'd never get to the hands on part working here! I do the bookkeeping and all of the cleanups of books for small businesses, that keeps me busy but I'd take some remote work doing that even if I could find it!