Discussion:Now Comes The Part That I Hate
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| 16 April 2008 | |
| Every year, it seems, I make at least one or two dumb mistakes. A good client just called and said he got an IRS notice that he had mistated his estimated tax payments. When I investigated, I found that I had double posted his 2006 overpayment, once as an overpayment applied forward (automatic in the software) and once as a first quarter payment. This is a guy who does his own quarterlies, so I just took his list of quarterly payments and merrily posted them in the software. It was not a small amount of money, and I should have noticed that the amount was identical - but I didn't. Now he's mad.
You just work so hard to get it all right, but sometimes in the fog of war, stuff happens. Please tell me others make dumb mistakes. Your silence will indicate your perfection. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 16 April 2008 |
| That is always my biggest mistake....client lists the total of taxes paid but is smarter than me, and includes the overpayment......you are not alone. | |
Nancyshoemake (talk|edits) said: | 16 April 2008 |
| okay....are we humbling ourselves here? Efile return rejected. Upon further review noticed that the w-2g gambling winnings of $9500 we also showed $9500 of federal withholding. The software 2 years ago had you put w-2g in pensions....and has since switched to another location...We just were thinking "pensions" input...So taxpayer actually paid in $9500 less in federal withholding than was reality. That wasn't a fun call to make yesterday on the 15th! | |
| 16 April 2008 | |
| It seems like such a simple matter - what did you pay in - but this always comes up - your short or long on the count - I ask for copies of checks and verify the dates - and verify what they got back from last year, as well. | |
