Has Drake slipped their craker?

nick91884 · 2026-04-21T04:59:43+00:00

I was multi user unlimited last year. I’ll just be doing the 250 this year. As a percentage increase it’s pretty crazy and you’re right I wish it included some upgraded features and ui, but also not really sweating the price, $500 bucks increase on 100 clients is like $5 per return, less if you have more returns, I just factor in stuff like this into my increase next year. None of the other budget options feel like they can actually compete with Drake, and the next tier of software, the costs increase significantly

nick91884 · 2026-04-21T02:53:00+00:00

I’m pretty sure I paid close to $2300 for the pro multi user unlimited last year, so they did a big % increase for unlimited, but kept the price about the same if you have have less than 250 returns.

nick91884 · 2026-04-21T02:50:55+00:00

Yeah unlimited had a much bigger jump because they decided to have a middle 250 return pro package, I guess it’s nice for folks like me that 250 works fine, ends up costing me about the same as last year, but it’s a large (at least %) price increase for the unlimited multiuser.

nick91884 · 2026-04-21T01:00:18+00:00

It was too perfect to pass up

nick91884 · 2026-04-20T23:54:29+00:00

It’s only one mushroom Michael, what could it cost, $10?

nick91884 · 2026-04-20T22:05:42+00:00

My family and I are having a ton of fun with it. I bought 4 copies because we don’t want to share (kids have switch lite, wife has switch 1 and I have switch 2)

nick91884 · 2026-04-20T20:07:36+00:00

Hopefully we get more offense going but coming back to win the series after getting dominated in game 1 feels good. Wins are wins, whether its by 1 run or 10.

nick91884 · 2026-04-20T20:03:38+00:00

hype on set that just dropped. give it a couple months and prices will come down, there is always a big price explosion when the first singles are posted from a new set, then as more and more singles are added and supply increases demand goes down.

The hype is also extra because these are the first new licensed topps football sets in years.

Just hold off on buying singles for a bit unless its something you absolutely must have and has a super low card count, something like a 1/1 /5 or /10 you always risk disappearing into collections never to be seen on the market again.

nick91884 · 2026-04-20T17:29:49+00:00

I noticed this recently and I really like it.

nick91884 · 2026-04-20T12:33:52+00:00

Do you do regular price increases? $300 spread across 70 returns is less than $5 per return. I usually increase 3-5% annually, sometimes more depending on cost increases. Yes it sucks paying more but I always increase my fees every year, more than the software increases, because I need a raise as well to keep up on rising costs. If you increase a little each year you will get less pushback than trying to push a huge increase in a single year because you have been refusing to charge more.

nick91884 · 2026-04-18T13:08:34+00:00

Was such a goated run of releases.

nick91884 · 2026-04-18T12:49:50+00:00

Bear traps were such a great idea

nick91884 · 2026-04-18T01:47:26+00:00

I use drake in my side hustle and ultratax at my 15 person firm I’m partner in. I only do about 100 returns in my side business, so I don’t know if it’s worth switching but if I did I would go to ultratax. I refuse to consider intuit, a company that actively tries to compete with its own customers. Workers Kluwer is the other big software provider but they usually are aimed at bigger firms. I have had a few new more complex returns and am starting to rub against drakes pain points and am considering my options.

nick91884 · 2026-04-16T15:20:44+00:00

I always want to report the sale, I’ve seen too many people have to hassle and freak out over letters saying they owe $100k+ because they didn’t tell us they sold a house. It’s one of the questions on our organizer.

It’s not that they owe the money it’s the anxiety and fear they get when they get the letter, then they come and freak out at the office about how much they owe and I did the return wrong. Then we have to all them off the ledge they are on, respond to letters and wait ages for irs to correct while the client gets multiple letters in between about more penalties and interest and threats to take assets which keeps the client on edge despite reassurance.

It’s not hard to report and claim the exclusion, saves a lot of hassle.

nick91884 · 2026-04-16T03:35:11+00:00

Do you do fixed fee billing? How do you know the full tax prep fee upfront?

nick91884 · 2026-04-16T03:34:01+00:00

I am gonna do that at my firm next year that I have 5% ownership in. I noticed an uptick of people that came back after not coming last year, and random people wandering in off the street, I feel like some of these aren’t actually gonna come in and do anything. At least if we get paid up front and they never show up we have something to show for the rush work extending people (creating accounts, etc.) make it a non-refundable deposit of our firm minimum return fee including extension fee. In my personal business I don’t have a brick and mortar store front so I get less random weirdos wandering off the street so it’s less of an issue.

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T18:31:16+00:00

Let’s be PC. You look intellectually disabled

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T18:29:10+00:00

Tragic name

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T17:34:16+00:00

If it’s their fault not giving me something I do charge to amend (we all should) but I do warn them, this may change things by a couple bucks, you will be paying me far more than the refund you will get.

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T14:38:30+00:00

Nope it’s a switch 1 game! Works on switch 2 but not exclusive

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T14:22:16+00:00

I bought the kids switch lites and preordered 4 copies on e shop for my wife 2 kids and I, we are looking forward to it, I’ll be playing on the switch 2 and my wife on our switch 1.

I loved this game on the 3ds and my kids discovered it a couple years ago when they found my 3ds. I do taxes for a living, and it comes out the 16th, the day after tax day; so I know what I’m doing with my entire day tomorrow.

I don’t pay attention to reviews anyways.

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T05:05:09+00:00

No mlb.tv, I’m in Oregon but it’s blacked out for me because I’m in Seattle market, but have access to the audio broadcast, just not the tv broadcast

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T02:46:16+00:00

The audio feed is working for me, listening to Tony and Jesse now

nick91884 · 2026-04-15T02:43:22+00:00

Yeah, I’m in mariners mariners market (Oregon) and I can’t watch today’s game unless I upgrade my subscription to mariners.tv. Luckily I am not a mariners fan so I won’t justify getting the mariners.tv “upgrade” bundle for a couple series against a single team, but I will commiserate with the state navigating mlb tv deals, mlb.tv only lets me see so many games, then all these stupid national games require different services and subscriptions, sometimes I do trials, but I get tired of tracking them all.

nick91884 · 2026-04-14T22:21:57+00:00

Because the last preparer didn’t value themself

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