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Tax Preparer / Solopreneur; love running, the Dallas Cowboys, and owning my kids in Mario Kart.
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Counterpoint: boxes are useful, especially if you're moving. Please think carefully before you free yourself of boxes. You might need to move someday.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Millennials / Zoomers: Uses portal. Always. For everything. Needs no help. No questions. Completely smooth experience for everyone. Gen X & Boomers: "Why does it send me a code so I can login? What do I do? Can we have a call?"

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

When that elderly, technology-challenged, $300 1040 client tells me they're using a different tax preparer this year.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Writing an email today, I literally left out like half of a sentence and just kept going and hit send. No subjects, no verbs, no coherence. Also today: a client accidentally emailed his tax information to his Porsche dealer instead of to me. Just stellar communication all around.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Trump didn't run on this, sure. But he could have. He still would've won. Does it matter what Trump actually ran on? I don't think so. No adult takes him at his word. The lies were all baked in. People wanted policy nihilism. The details were never important.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 112 days ago • 132 comments

Very effective answer. All I ever ask of any politician is that they tell me the truth.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment