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Columbus Day
Our office will be closed Monday October 10, 2022 in recognition of Columbus Day.
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COVID Tax Relief
$1.2 billion in penalties being refunded to 1.6 million taxpayers… IRS provides broad-based penalty relief for certain 2019 and 2020 returns due to the pandemic. To help struggling taxpayers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2022-36,which provides penalty relief to most people and businesses who file certain 2019 or…
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Welcome Kaley N. Warren, Tax Accountant!
Kaley comes to Cook & Co. Tax Advisors from Regions Bank. Kaley is originally from Arab. She received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Athens State University. She successfully completed an internship as a Tax Accountant during her college studies, so she is already very familiar with our software. Kaley is doing a great…
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Just an Old Pocketknife…
An Old Pocketknife A longtime client and friend died last year. He and I only saw each other once a year when he made his annual trip to Arab to file his taxes. But we always spent extra time together talking about old pocketknives, a common interest we shared. This week my friend’s daughter was…
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Post-Pandemic Woes at the IRS
National Taxpayer Advocate issues mid-year report to Congress; expresses concern about continued refund delays and poor taxpayer service WASHINGTON — National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins today released her statutorily mandated mid-year report to Congress. The report expresses concern about continuing delays in the processing of paper-filed tax returns and the consequent impact on taxpayer…
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Closed for Juneteenth
Our office will be closed Monday June 20th in honor of Juneteenth.
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After Closing at 5, Our Office will be Closed the Balance of This Week
We will reopen Monday April 25th at 9:00 am. Today we will be filing extensions and getting vouchers and other documents to clients. We do not file tax returns today, as we will not be back in the office until Monday April 25th. It generally takes 24 to 48 hours to receive the Acknowledgement of…
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OTELCO, Our Local Telephone Company Has Problems Again
All of our incoming and outgoing telephone service is temporarily down this Monday morning 04/11/2022. It has been down since noon on Saturday 04/09/2022. The telephone technicians are supposed to address the problem this morning. It was 30 days ago when one of their Adtran Network Cards died. Whatever the issue is, the telephone company…
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Why We Avoid Sending Paper to the IRS
As of March 18, the IRS has a backlog of 15 million paper tax returns for the 2022 tax season. All of which, must be processed by workers typing out each digit and each letter! Of course there are times when we have to correspond with them, but we are encouraging taxpayers to file and…
