Talking With the Taxpayer Advocate: The IRS Is Under Stress

[SoCalDavidS]

2. The IRS Commissioner Is A P.O.S.

A Drumpf appointee, Congress and other Accounting & Tax Preparer organizations had to practically BEG for an extension to the April 15 deadline. They had wanted either June or July, but finally, about 10 days ago, the commissioner gave until May 17.

Even though the IRS is completely backed up, and I have at least 3 or 4 clients still waiting for their 20219 Refunds. They can both say how far behind they are, and at the same time say they're well prepared to move forward with 2020 processing. Bullshit!!

I'm a CPA, so this is why I'm focused on this. As if all of that wasn't enough, now Congress is still BEGGING for an extension to the 1st Qtr 2021 Estimate filing. Because the IRS, in all their wisdom, extended the Individual filing date, but left the 1st Qtr Estimates date as 4/15. So now I have clients e-mailing me in confusion. I should mention that it's much more difficult to do an Estimate for the coming year, until you've completed the prior year. So now, I have to go through and see which clients I need to essentially still complete in the next couple of days, so they can make their Estimates by Thursday.

Last year, this Drumpf appointee, had no problem extending everything until July. In 2021, it's piecemeal at best, and very little sympathy for those trying to meet the deadlines, while still in the middle of a pandemic. But the IRS commissioner dickhead doesn't care about that. He wants compassion in regards to the fact the IRS still has lots of 2019 Returns to process, but isn't willing to give any to tax filers or the preparers who put their Returns together.