The 2019 Tax Season (Part 1): A Miserable Year

This is my 19th year as a tax professional. By far, this past Tax Season was the worst of the nineteen I’ve experienced. Why? Well, there were a multitude of reasons. First, I had a personal issue that impacted my family. For me, that was a top priority, and it caused me to miss about ten days of work since the new year began. I don’t regret that in the least–my family is important to me. Still, the timing was poor (to say the least). Second, tax reform. My clientele is primarily self-employed individuals. Almost all of them were impacted directly or indirectly by reform. While there are no state tax issues for Nevadans, we specialize in industries rather than a geographic location, so we had to deal with lots of differences for state taxes. Third, tax software this year was far ‘buggier’ than in prior years. Tax reform was the culprit. Many new forms were not released until 2019, so software companies had no idea how to write their…

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