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Our Office will be Closed Monday May 27th for Memorial Day
E-File, e-Services Unavailable Over Holiday Weekend The IRS will conduct maintenance on the e-Services and e-File systems over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. The e-Services’ Transcript Delivery System, TIN Matching, ACA and e-file Application will not be available during this time. The Modernized e-File Systems (MeF) will also be unavailable. Please refrain from accessing the…
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Did you miss the tax filing deadline?
While the federal income tax-filing deadline has passed for most people, there are some taxpayers who have not yet filed their tax returns. We encourage you to file now, even if you can’t pay to avoid potential penalties and interest. There are many ways Cook and Company offers help to taxpayers facing this situation.
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Use 2018 return to get 2019 withholding right
More than 2,000 taxpayers filed a 2018 tax return with us in the last ten weeks, making now a prime time for everyone to consider whether their tax situation came out as they expected. If it didn’t, we can use your recently finished 2018 return and adjust your withholding. Checking and then adjusting your tax…
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IRS announces multi-year plan to update, modernize IT systems
Effort focused on improved taxpayer services, expanded cybersecurity and taxpayer data protections The Internal Revenue Service released today a six-year plan to modernize the agency’s Information Technology systems and improve a variety of taxpayer services critical to the nation’s tax system. The plan outlines a bold strategy to enable business transformation focused on improving services…
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Direct Debit Tax Payment does not show up yet
The IRS says it can take 7-10 days due to the high e-filing volume. In addition, it can take your bank a few days to post the debit to your account. Do not worry, we filed on time and selected April 15 or earlier as your payment date.
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Tax Season Telephone Traffic at the Office
The 10 weeks of tax season are a very busy time for us. This year my phone system and people handled 8,106 calls! 3,525 were incoming calls while 4,581 were outgoing calls. During the same period last year, we handled 8,017 total calls. Of which, 3,689 were incoming and 4,328 were outgoing.
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As this tax filing season comes to a close ….
I want to say thank you to everyone for another successful year! The staff, the clients and our vendors. As of Saturday, we had filed 1,980 tax returns and we still have one day to go. Telephone traffic last week – 1,151 Calls 497 incoming and 654 outgoing calls!
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We still have a few openings today and tomorrow!
The deadline to file 2018 individual tax returns and pay taxes owed is Monday, April 15, 2019, for most taxpayers. Because of local holidays, the deadline for taxpayers living in Maine or Massachusetts is April 17, 2019. (256) 586-4111 Some disaster victims may have extra time to file their tax returns and pay any taxes…
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Happy Friday!
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