You might be right, but as bsteiner said, the first return should have been more difficult and time consuming. We have essentially done the same thing for many years in a row. I don’t understand why this year became so much more time consuming.As someone who has to track time like this (which I hate, so much so that it can only be expressed in interpretive dance), that doesn't seem unreasonable. It's not just a 15 minute task to get an email,.log it, look up the information, understand it, and reply. There's a loss of context -- that person was doing something else, needed to stop, reply to you, and then pick back up.The lawyer did explain it to us, and at first charged a reasonable amount for the service, but lately it just seems exorbitant. I just don’t see how every 2 line email takes 0.4 hours for the assistant to process (eg, “what date and account did you pay Bob’s gift from? 4/1/2024 and Tomatina’s BoA account”) and then 0.4 hours for the attorney to review. I’m a capitalist and I don’t begrudge anyone a living, but I ask that I not be made to feel ashamed to look at myself in the mirror when brushing my teeth.
The form is not that difficult. I will do it myself from now on or have my CPA do it if I get intimidated by a 5 page form.
Statistics: Posted by TomatoTomahto — Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:23 pm — Replies 13 — Views 967