Discussion:Another Good Rule
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| I do this one friends <older gentleman> return, very high income, he basically does all the work and I input and he'll come in and we'll spend 3 or 4 hours together doing the returns for him and his family/friends and catching up. He usually throws me about $400 <I used to say no, but now, ok> for this and I've never given him a bill. He asked me this year what I would normally charge. Told him $1,500 to $2,000 for the pile in his hand. He was a little, but not much, shocked. }} | I do this one friends <older gentleman> return, very high income, he basically does all the work and I input and he'll come in and we'll spend 3 or 4 hours together doing the returns for him and his family/friends and catching up. He usually throws me about $400 <I used to say no, but now, ok> for this and I've never given him a bill. He asked me this year what I would normally charge. Told him $1,500 to $2,000 for the pile in his hand. He was a little, but not much, shocked. }} | ||
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| + | {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=Chris2lane|Date=April 9, 2009|Text=Family and friends returns are the worst. They get you their info late, question their returns when they're completed and you usually get nothing more than a half-hearted thank you. My neighbor dropped his stuff off to me yesterday. I sarcastically ask him why not wait until the 14th to drop it off. Granted, he gets a bill, but a reduced one at that. Those close to us take the most advantage of our goodwill. | ||
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| + | D&T, your wife's niece takes the cake. That takes some serious brass ones to be bitching like she did and now wants to have someone else re-do the return. Amazing. | ||
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Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 9 April 2009 |
| Never, never, never do returns for family.
Pam, my wife, has learned enough about data-entering to do simple returns, with me providing back up.....the simple returns are her son's, her brother who is fighting cancer, and her ditzy niece and husband. They live in a two family house where they rent their side from her mom but own the other side, for which they collect rent. This year, they lost their tenant, so had a decent loss since they lacked rent for 3-4 months. Big refund!!!!!! Like 6K!!!! But since they live in NJ, no benefit from loss and they owe the state $550. Wife gives them the return, and now all she hears about is New Jersey. She did the return in late February, and charged nothing too, then attends a family function in early March where niece spent the entire dinner at a restaurant bitching about why nothing could be done about NJ....would not even pay for wife's dinner. Last week niece and her mother [Pam's sister] call and ask Pam to send them the notes niece sent her to do the return.....Mom's accountant is going to re-do NJ!!!!!! What is he going to do? Make up medical expenses? Put down alimony? She is getting 18% of the rent paid as a deduction anyway, and she pays a high rent to Mom, so inserting a real estate tax will do little good. I told Pam to explain to niece's husband that it is her W-2 that is grossly underwithheld for New Jersey.....that ought to set some sparks flying. | |
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| I am thankful I don't do any of the family's returns. I have in the past but I took soo long to do them that they went elsewhere. Family is last in the pile. Friends too. And I always send them a bill that has the true cost of their return and then the reduction to zero.
I do this one friends <older gentleman> return, very high income, he basically does all the work and I input and he'll come in and we'll spend 3 or 4 hours together doing the returns for him and his family/friends and catching up. He usually throws me about $400 for this and I've never given him a bill. He asked me this year what I would normally charge. Told him $1,500 to $2,000 for the pile in his hand. He was a little, but not much, shocked. | |
Chris2lane (talk|edits) said: | April 9, 2009 |
| Family and friends returns are the worst. They get you their info late, question their returns when they're completed and you usually get nothing more than a half-hearted thank you. My neighbor dropped his stuff off to me yesterday. I sarcastically ask him why not wait until the 14th to drop it off. Granted, he gets a bill, but a reduced one at that. Those close to us take the most advantage of our goodwill.
D&T, your wife's niece takes the cake. That takes some serious brass ones to be bitching like she did and now wants to have someone else re-do the return. Amazing. | |
