anyone an ACCOUNTANT here?

[macavoy]

So Im self employed and just had my taxes done. I have several 1099s. On one of these the person and I disagreed by $1100. There is a box on the top of the 1099 to check if corrected....Im guessing when people do subcontract work theyre are always disagreements on the correct #, so he sent into the IRS one amount and I will be sending in the amount minus $1100........and that person who I worked with and I have a bad relationship and there is no way we can sit down and go over our books without gunfire.

HERES the big problem. After grilling me about the difference my accountant made the correction on my tax sheet claiming my corrected amount as income......the f***in accountant called the person I disagreed with(their phone # was on the 1099) and told them about the discrepency........I feel like Ive been tattled on...

can an accountant do this??? Isnt there some confidentiality???

My feeling is whatever I claim is between me and the IRS...so I havent paid my fee yet. Im thinking of saying screw you and going elsewhere. This acct has opened up a can of worms for me and Im pissed. any accountants know the rules on this??

 

[fletcher]

i have a great cpa and do some 1099's and i would be very very pissed if my cpa did that it is none of their business sure not the kind of cpa I would want to be dealing with, i would be finding a better one and one who does what you say to do not what they feel like doing and they are out there just need to interview next one you hire. i went to 5 before i found ones to fit my gamming needs. and have never had a problem in 7 years with her. i would explode if my cpa did what yours did.

 

[countinguy]

No that is not right, that is the same as an attorney/client relationship.

I had a women cpa she charged me $50 every freekkin time u signed her name on something, always had lots of forms to file cause i have a payroll. Then low and behold finally got tired of the outrageous fee at $50 an auto (hell she thought she was barry bonds) found me another cpa and this dude takes care of all my payroll for under $2 a check and files all the payroll reports for free. SHIT!!! Thought I hit the Lottery with this guy!!!

LOOK FOR ANOTHER CPA PLENTY OUT THERE!!!!

 

[BahamaMama]

sorry Macavoy, but can't see the problem here :shrug:

a 1099 is comparable to a w-2 for the normal working person, and if your employer sent a w-2 to the IRS that said you had $1,876,984,735 in wages and they withheld $42 in federal income tax, don't you think your accountant would be able to notify them there was some sort of a problem and you disagreed, and reported what YOU said was correct info to the IRS?


now if he were to call company A, and report that you changed info on company B's 1099, that would be an entirely different story and WOULD fall under confidentiality rules IMHO

 

[countinguy]

wait a min mama,

I don't agree w/that the irs gets the same 1099 the subcontractor gets, they can't be different.

A cpa has no biz to get in the middle of something like that, that is what attorneys are for, if a lawyer intervened he would have to have proof of this subcontractor being paid like cancelled checks etc. This is not the business of the cpa. the cpa is suppose to file the returns as accurately as they can with the infor. they have been given, and their obligation is to work for the info given them, so if it is all lies the info is in their files and the IRS takes over from there. CPA are form filler outters not lawyers, i am sorry, but I disagree here.

 

[countinguy]

Ok I just reread his post,

He said he disagreed w/the amount of the 1099..

Ok well that still puts the truth on the employer because he has to prove he paid this guy and he was stupid enuff to pay him cash he deserves to have this fought. Guarantee the irs will settle this, if the dude did not sign getting paid for this he wins..

 

[BahamaMama]

see 100% what you're getting at here countinguy.....guess i was looking at it in a different perspective. yes, IRS gets the same thing that the contractor gets (which is why i compared it to a W-2 from a company.........same deal)

guess i should further add... if it is a *dispute* as to the amount, it should be handled by an attorney rather than the CPA, but i still don't see a problem with a CPA reporting an *error* to a company in order to give them a chance to submit a corrected 1099 to the IRS if they screwed up accidently.

if they intentionally did something wrong here, and know it will come down to legal action and likely even an audit, they will corect their intentional error no problem

if they know and have proof that they are the ones with the correct info, they won't submit a correction, and it wouldn't change anything in audits anyway.

 

[countinguy]

glad we agree mama!!

macavoy fire the person, that is not their job, period...

If the ask u why, tell them I didn't know u was a detective or a lawyer!!!!!!!!!!!!!:moon: :moon:

 

[macavoy]

thx for the replies. Im going to chew this ladys ass a bit....she also qouted me around $300 for the taxes and charged me $700, got it down to $500 and just wanted to be done....but now after she calls my ex employer Im pissed. I should just go elsewhere but this cpa still has my w2 and 1099s . So I almost guarantee if I say f off to her and her fee they'll try and hold that over my head....but I never signed anything with her about any fee so I think Id be ok...its a big co. that rhymes with U.R.A. Cock.