{"id":5100,"date":"2025-04-14T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2025-04-14T05:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:47:24","slug":"tax-season-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/tax-season-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Season Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is April 14th, which in a normal Tax Season would be our last day of a full schedule of busy appointments, however this Tax Season is not normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Tax Filing Deadline Extended to May 1st for All Alabama Residents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder, our <strong>Office Hours<\/strong> will revert to <em><strong>Monday through Thursday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm<\/strong><\/em>. You&#8217;ve tolerated my discussions and updates about the new parking lot all year and as the season comes to an end, I still cannot make my long promised final post about the project. This is because I am still waiting on the decorative wrought iron to be delivered and installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> <strong>FastLane MetalWorx<\/strong> advised me that the wrought iron was being sent to be powder-coated last Tuesday. So hopefully we are in the final stages of the final segment of the project.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gjc-04-12-25-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Greg\" class=\"wp-image-5099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gjc-04-12-25-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gjc-04-12-25-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gjc-04-12-25-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gjc-04-12-25.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Telephone Traffic this Week &#8211; 1,170 Calls<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tel-2025-04-14.png\" alt=\"Telephone Traffic Chart\" class=\"wp-image-5098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tel-2025-04-14.png 886w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tel-2025-04-14-350x205.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">701 Outgoing Calls and 469 Incoming Calls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a normal Tax Season, I would be making my blog post while having my morning coffee on Sunday, however, as I said earlier, &#8220;this is no normal Tax Season.&#8221; Myself and two other staff members contracted Covid in March. Two others had really bad cases of the Flu. We installed a new Point-Of-Sale (POS) system this year that created some time-consuming extra workload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch for my <strong>&#8220;Parking Lot, The Final Edition&#8221;<\/strong> blog post, coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is April 14th, which in a normal Tax Season would be our last day of a full schedule of busy appointments, however this Tax Season is not normal. The Tax Filing Deadline Extended to May 1st for All Alabama Residents As a reminder, our Office Hours will revert to Monday through Thursday 8:00 am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-04-14T10:48:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"1ec74b2b-8aca-4d65-b321-1adbcdaff4b1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-04-14T10:48:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHsdLK4rKTWWzIRrbza_0sQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firm","tag-tax-season"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}