Shelly B. LaGroue, CPA

This is from my affirmation app today. I had to chuckle since I’m right smack in the middle of tax season. Not so, says the IRS!!!!

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Quote of the day.

A little nerdy tax humor today… 😬🤣

Well, this is disconcerting…

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/12/tax-pros-horrified-by-irs-decision-to-destroy-data-on-30-million-filers.html?fbclid=IwAR0vRI8CwZdKC7eG8REBa6DJj0XsMVSuN3rr8laD2pzvVMctfwDSbWbgs08

Tax professionals ‘horrified’ by IRS decision to destroy data on 30 million filers The IRS destroyed an estimated 30 million so-called paper-filed information returns in March 2021, sparking anger from the tax community.

Tax nerd jokes 🤣

Today is the tax filing deadline for S corporations and partnerships. Make sure you’ve filed or extended because the late filing penalties are tough on these entities!

The IRS backlog is apparently much worse than previously calculated.

IRS backlog hits nearly 24 million returns, further imperiling the 2022 tax filing season The inventory of unprocessed returns and related correspondence was provided by the IRS’s taxpayer advocate service to the tax-writing committees in Congress. The Treasury Department, the IRS’s parent agency, warned in January that it expected its response to be subpar this year.

Do so at your own risk…. 🤣🤣🤣

Tax humor! IYKYK

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/27/irs-face-scans/

IRS wants to scan your face Millions of Americans will soon have to scan their face to access their Internal Revenue Service tax accounts, one of the government’s biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people’s everyday lives.

If you received Advanced Child Tax Credit payments, please make sure you put the correct amount on your return. These letters were intended to make that process easier, but that may no longer be the case.

IRS warns some CTC letters may have incorrect information — CBS News The issue could create tax refund delays for parents if they rely on faulty information to complete their tax returns.