“Twas the month before tax season, when all through the staff
Not an accountant was happy; not a one would laugh”
Busy season begins next month, and you can’t blame CPAs if they don’t have visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads. COVID-19 stretched the 2020 busy season from a three-month march into a three-year slog. Beset by a blizzard of government-relief programs, tax deadline changes and IRS service delays, accounting firms plowed through enormous piles of extra