NT (not directly) - it runs in families

[Catherine]

Just venting. Trying to do a return for the 29-year-old son of clients. Dad is spot-on with numbers. Mom and both daughters are hopeless, as was Grandpa. Son is also proving also to be utterly hopeless.  Not only does he need to be hand-walked through every *&%$ item on the return, but he also seems to think I have nothing better to do today than to exchange chatty emails about how hard it is to find his business mileage, his 1095-A, his bitcoin sale basis information, his EIP#3 payment info, and every blessed thing else on his return.

Can I spank him? Please?

Guess not.  I'd have to spank mom too then. 

Rant over. I feel better now.  Thank you all for your kind time and attention.

[Elrod]

Just to be on the safe side, Catherine... Line them all up and paddle their little. @x$"&&&..

 

                                          

[Lynn EA USTCP in Louisiana]

Hope his return is on extension 

[Catherine]

This is the kid I nearly sent the snarky comment to; the one that said "ever hear of SUMIF?" That was after I got the spreadsheet. First iteration was a 2-page printout of the spreadsheet with no gridlines and no totals. Except for the one thing he totaled that didn't belong totaled.