![]() ![]() With four days before the looming deadline we installed a SINGLE IBM 8088 computer and a beast of an HP III printer. Then came a tax year where farmer deadline was looming on 3/1 (Farmers get the ability to skip estimates if they file by 3/1) and the software company was behind on implementation of the tax changes that year and couldn’t get the farmer tax returns back in time. (I would ruin suit jackets getting not quite dried whiteout on the sleeves every tax season). If the issue wasn’t THAT bad we would take whiteout liquid, cover up the error and type in the revisions ourselves. ![]() Once again having a courier pick up the change form, having it flown down to Los Angeles, and then back again with the revised tax return. If we messed up and got something wrong, we would have to enter a “revision” form and send them back for reprocessing. They would print out the tax return, put them in envelopes, put them back on an airplane, flown back to Fresno and then a courier to drive around and drop them off at our office a few days later. The forms were then picked up by a courier, driven to the Airport, flown to Torrance, California where someone at CCH/Accutax/other tax vendors would input the information that we had entered on the input forms. I remember tax season when I first started at my firm – personal computers were relatively new and we filled out these paper input forms in order to prepare tax returns. Love ’em or hate ’em, you have to admit… as we start another year – this company has dramatically changed computing. Posted on Apat 00:28 CDT by Susan Bradley ![]()
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