Done!

[JohnH]

Last extension filed at 4:45 on the 14th.

Total of 39 extensions filed (including my own).

Hope everyone has a manageable day on the 15th.

[Catherine]

Congratulations, JohnH!

[jklcpa]

Sure feels good to be done, doesn't it?    

[Terry D EA]

Got three left and one CRUT I am working on but will probably put it on extension with the other ten as well. Can't wait to turn the lights off and head to the beach in a week! Hopefully I'll call it quits at 9:00 PM tomorrow.

[joanmcq]

I've got about 75 extensions filed (including my own) and waiting to hear back from a client that owes about $16k, how he wants to pay. Got a few more to review. So frikkin tired AND have a headache.

Still have to figure out my estimates and review my assistant's return-wife bought a PTP. Really tempted to just go to bed right now though.

[Catherine]

Hope your head feels all better this morning, Joan!

[mcb39]

Not done by a long shot.  Will take a few days off for medical appts and R and R.  Back to the extensions on Monday.  I would rather get it all behind me.  I truly love and appreciate everyone on this board.

[RitaB]

Gotta get some more extensions, don't know how many, I hope a lot. My door is open. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. And your slackers. I'm here for you.

Just want to confirm that the ACA did not improve my health, but it didn't do me in, either.

And my motto today is: "April 15 doesn't tell us, we tell IT."

[JohnH]

^{Extensions take Apr 15 off the table and can make it just another day at the office (or away from the office, as the case may be).}

Edited April 15, 2015 by JohnH

[Catherine]

^{Extensions take Apr 15 off the table and can make it just another day at the office (or away from the office, as the case may be).}

 

One would hope, but it doesn't, quite.  There is always the last-minute crunch of folks who suddenly decide they want to make a payment, or call with their grown child's info so you can put in extensions for them, or who contacted you two months ago and never since  until *today* when they want to know if it's too late to file an extension with you...

 

Blech.

 

I will be GLAD when today is over.  Will take it easy the rest of this week (5-6 hour days, not 10-12) and start hitting the extended clients next week.  Note for Rita:  that is, hitting their *tax returns* by working on them, not dope-slapping the clients.  Not even the ones who really NEED dope-slapping.  Although those I will *think* about hitting.  90% of the fun, 0% of the repercussions.  Except for the queries, when speaking with them, about why the sudden big grin ("Oh, nothing, just a random funny thought crossed my mind").

[Lion EA]

Yeah, and Catherine has guns!

[Catherine]

Yeah, and Catherine has guns!

 

That's right, I do.  But I wouldn't waste using them on clients.  

 

In fact, I took a half-hour this morning to practice rifle (the pretty purple one you've all seen in pictures, that Margaret got to hold when she visited) with this super-spiffy laser practice setup my husband bought a year or so ago (from Noptel).  Our first match is this Saturday and standing on the line might be my very first chance at live fire this year.    

 

http://www.noptel.fi/eng2/Sport/index.php

Edited April 15, 2015 by Catherine

[michaelmars]

I've got about 75 extensions filed (including my own) and waiting to hear back from a client that owes about $16k, how he wants to pay. Got a few more to review. So frikkin tired AND have a headache.

Still have to figure out my estimates and review my assistant's return-wife bought a PTP. Really tempted to just go to bed right now though.

Just an aside to your post, why would you file estimates for yourself when you are on extension?  If you add what you need to pay with your 1st estimate to your extension, you have that extra hedge in case your extension is short..    Lets say I "think" I need 10k for my extension and 15k for my first estimate, I send 25k with the extension.

[michaelmars]

That's right, I do.  But I wouldn't waste using them on clients.  

 

In fact, I took a half-hour this morning to practice rifle (the pretty purple one you've all seen in pictures, that Margaret got to hold when she visited) with this super-spiffy laser practice setup my husband bought a year or so ago (from Noptel).  Our first match is this Saturday and standing on the line might be my very first chance at live fire this year.    

 

http://www.noptel.fi/eng2/Sport/index.php

Sunday I get to shoot my new handgun purchase in January, It been hard looking at it all tax season knowing that not a round is going through it till after 4/15

[Lion EA]

I use Michael's method.  Don't risk being short on the extension, which is 2014 with all that interest accruing on any shortfall.  But, I had every single client call me this year -- after explaining it in great detail in writing in an email -- asking for their ES vouchers or saying they misplaced them or even both husband and wife emailing me for 1Q amounts.  I resent the email to every one of them!

[easytax]

That's right, I do.  But I wouldn't waste using them on clients.  

 

In fact, I took a half-hour this morning to practice rifle (the pretty purple one you've all seen in pictures, that Margaret got to hold when she visited) with this super-spiffy laser practice setup my husband bought a year or so ago (from Noptel).  Our first match is this Saturday and standing on the line might be my very first chance at live fire this year.    

 

http://www.noptel.fi/eng2/Sport/index.php

 

[Yardley CPA]

Another Tax Day has come and I am finished with what needed to be done for today.  Extensions await me but that can be handled over the next month or two.  Thanks to everyone on this forum for their support and sage advice.  It's very much appreciated!  My best to each of you for an "off season" filled with nothing but good health and good cheer!

[joanmcq]

I shouldnt be short on the extension; I'm mostly done. Wasn't sure if I'd contribute to an IRA or not. Might have a few more expenses here and there.

I could have done that though. I'm just too frikkin fried to have thought of it.

[Terry D EA]

Finally DONE!!! Filed the last extension and transmitted the last return. It has been a grueling season and I hope everyone here has had a good one. Time for some much needed rest for all.

[taxbrewster]

Thanks to everyone!! This board is a wonderful resource because of the wonderful people. Take some time to relax, hang with family, and thank them for putting up with us during this time. Off to pour a drink and not worry about tomorrow.

[NECPA in NEBRASKA]

I'm finally finished! 102 extensions. I can't believe how many people showed up today. I even got a 2013 in that I thought I had lost. Tomorrow my first excursion away from the house since Easter is to take my son to have his wisdom teeth taken out since he ended up in the ER last week in KS with severe pain and a very bad infection. I don't know why these things can't happen when he's in town. Fortunately, he didn't fly down there or we would have had to drive a pilot down there to fly the plane back that lets him borrow it. Then I can finally get my haircut after I get him home so my husband can watch him. We were going to a movie, but that's out for now.

 

Thanks to everyone on this board. Now I have to get back to quarterlies, sales tax and property tax returns.

[kcjenkins]

Yes, and for the next month, every time you meet a client anywhere, grocery, bank, drug store, etc, you will hear "Guess you are enjoying not having any work to do now that the 15th is behind you."  LOL

[joanmcq]

Just got a call from a prospective new client. The coffee is working enough that I could actually have a coherent discussion about record keeping.

Had a client whose return is basically done, but two of their charitable letters didn't have the required goods & services statement so it was on hold until we get new letters (these are thousand dollar donations, so we definitely want perfected letters!). Sent email to wife and didn't hear from her (they owe), so ended up just filing the extensions without a payment. Get an email & really early phone call this morning that I didn't answer; she flew last minute to Lithuania yesterday because he mother had a fall. So I'll have to try to walk husband (who is MUCH older - in his 80's) and not the computer savvy one as to how to pay online, or grab estimate vouchers from my portal. Might be easier to just overnight paper vouchers.

Thank god the coffee is working!

[Catherine]

Yes, and for the next month, every time you meet a client anywhere, grocery, bank, drug store, etc, you will hear "Guess you are enjoying not having any work to do now that the 15th is behind you."  LOL

Yeah, and after THIS season that comment is looking for Rita's boot in response.  Rita - do you outsource?

[mcb39]

Yeah, and after THIS season that comment is looking for Rita's boot in response.  Rita - do you outsource?

 

It already started this morning and I had already filed two returns before I went to the Dr with my hubby.  "Oh, you must be so glad it's over!!"

What part of over don't I get?  Rita's boot, indeed.