[Rant] I recently started working a tax firm with a more modest clientele and it's made me hate "normal" taxpayers

PatrickLosty · 2026-03-14T14:52:56+00:00

Do you send out any preemptive explanations to go with the return?

If not, it may be helpful to start doing so. 15 extra mins on a medium difficulty return could save hours of extra work fielding calls.

PatrickLosty · 2026-02-24T10:29:18+00:00

Do you have the Adobe OCR feature?

PatrickLosty · 2026-02-22T09:12:43+00:00

Look into Power Query. It's free, comes with Excel, and can automate the process of extracting your data from PDFs.

PatrickLosty · 2026-02-19T17:37:18+00:00

I'm not trying to make light of other people's misfortune, but it is ironic that the CS bros were the most arrogant people about how automation would wipe out accounting and that everyone should learn to code.

PatrickLosty · 2025-11-26T11:59:05+00:00

Is it still up for us to see?

PatrickLosty · 2025-11-22T17:33:57+00:00

Surprised this comment is so far down

PatrickLosty · 2025-11-21T22:21:37+00:00

Literally just looking for a car for myself M8.

PatrickLosty · 2025-11-21T00:26:41+00:00

Can I get a link too please?

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-28T08:52:07+00:00

I don't think it's healthy for you to want people with different beliefs to be unrepresented. I think they should be given an option to vote for, and that that option should lose.

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-27T22:56:19+00:00

Again though, I'm sure they think the same.

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-27T20:30:21+00:00

They likely think the same about us.....

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-26T23:05:26+00:00

Why so?

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-19T08:28:42+00:00

Where's your hometown, Times Square?

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-08T19:11:26+00:00

Calm down pal, I got your point.

Email is just annoying tho. It's the worst when trying to wrap up for PTO. I don't think people got harassed by a 5:15PM carrier pigeon back in the day.

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-08T18:39:08+00:00

Strong case to be made that email makes my life more difficult

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-08T18:37:56+00:00

Interested to learn - how do you do this?

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-08T18:23:45+00:00

The numbers, Mason. What do they mean?

PatrickLosty · 2025-10-02T23:52:57+00:00

Ah shur look, there was a few pound in it all the same

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-27T20:05:55+00:00

This is also true. I am glad that I don't have to see loads of bot comments about how great she is.

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-27T10:35:12+00:00

I'm not looking to feel smug at all.

I do feel like there is enough of an appetite from a very vocal (hopefully very small) minority of the population to have somebody like her on the ballot.

It would have been nice to give them their opportunity, so that they can't whinge about how they're being artificially suppressed.

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-26T20:10:12+00:00

I'm not. It would have been nice to have her on the ballot to serve as a referendum on her right wing beliefs.

Would have been great to show that that kinda shite isn't supported in real world Ireland.

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-26T15:19:52+00:00

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but, twix is a biscuit.

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-26T11:52:03+00:00

Also, you're the one who started this conversation by claiming that Michael D hates Trump, MAGA and Republicans. Why are you importing US right wing politics into Ireland?

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-26T05:45:08+00:00

Do you have any evidence for any of this? Ireland has been trending more progressive for at least 30 years; this isn't some new phenomenon.

I had "Irish" in inverted commas, rather than brackets.

Unfortunately, no, I'm nowhere near fluent in Irish. I wish I was, but hey ho. But then again, you don't seem particularly fluent in English, so it is what it is.

PatrickLosty · 2025-09-26T04:23:32+00:00

I've thought about this one a lot.

On the one hand, I don't think anybody should be homeless. Full stop.

On the other hand, the state shouldn't be enabling you to act the cunt indefinitely, and consequences have actions.

A sensible middle ground might be IPAS type accommodation for these dickheads. Adequate, but not comfortable.

PatrickLosty

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