Jacob Coniglione, CPA

@bsuecannon Prayers , I’m so sorry to hear that Brenda. Please let me know if you need anything

This morning didn’t go as planned. My husband had a stroke. The doctors think they caught it early and were able to give him the TNK medicine. My brother is with my Mom at the heart hospital next door getting her new pacemaker. What a day.

@mattressguy_ Damn lol You got a customer next time I need one 🤝

@Jacoby1198 D- I did a whole write up for them

Who’s got the balls to share their mattress? I’ll be as straightforward as possible with my rating

@BrianDavisTax @TGorcz Consensus is that is wrong. I thought the same as well

@TGorcz @Jacoby1198 I thought that was true on an initial election, but that if the entity had been operating as a partnership and then later elected to be an s corporation you still needed to do the 8832. Is that not right?

@mkoontz328 Thank you! I doubt they have an op agreement at all but will confirm

You don’t file an 8832 when you file the 2553 as others have said. Get a POA and call the IRS and ask if they have approved an S election and to send you the confirmation. That’s step 1. Next, look at their operating agreement to see if they have 704 language in it, if so, S election likely not valid or terminated. There are possibly ways to correct it.

@LoganGrafTax Appreciate it!

@Jacoby1198 I've never filed an 8832 with an s corp election. You can have them call the IRS to check the s corp status.

@TGorcz Appreciate it !

@Jacoby1198 You do not file Form 8832 with a Form 2553 for an LLC S election. It’s duplicative and will confuse the IRS. Treasury regulations are crystal clear the corporation election is deemed made when the Form 2553 is filed.

@abandura Nope. I like that thank you!

@Jacoby1198 Did they ever receive S-Election confirmation? If not, then I would attach a copy of the old or new request to the return when filing.

@FrancineHibiscs Correct lol I extended the 24 which was a pship 🫡 assuming it was a pship the whole time

@FrancineHibiscs Funny enough just made aware of this s election yesterday

@JWellsTax @cordes_tax Listed to this last week ! Thank you @EarmarkCPE

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@cordes_tax Gotcha thank you. I’ve seen it both ways!

@Jacoby1198 If this is an LLC making an S-Election, they do not need a new EIN. irs.gov/businesses/sma….

@cordes_tax You ever had issues with the EIN? I assume they didn’t get a new one lol

@Jacoby1198 It's the safe bet. Given how the IRS has a terrible record with 2553 processing...

@cordes_tax Thats what I was thinking. I’ve always sent in a 8832 as well

@Jacoby1198 If the criteria are met, may not need the 8832:

@nickmeals Praying for you king

14 days and 212 returns to go. Oh boy.

@dvassallo Glad it went ok. I would have just had you make an extension payment based on a pro forma of 1065 so you don’t have to amend your 1040. I’d still be a little hesitant to file without having a tie out to double check the software.

I just filed my taxes with OpenClaw. Here's how it went. I sold my 90% stake in a business last year for $1.8M cash (installment sale: half in 2025, half in 2026). I also had a single-member LLC, brokerage income from dividends and stocks, HSA distributions, ACA marketplace insurance, 3 real estate properties, prior estimated tax payments, foreign income tax credits, and three kids. Not a simple return. I usually pay a CPA. Last year it cost me $8,000 for personal and business returns, and every question took weeks to get answered (so I didn't ask much). This year I decided to see how far I could get with OpenClaw instead. Here's what actually happened: Phase 1: Research (Monday) I had a pile of documents: the purchase agreement, all LLC operating agreement amendments, old K-1s, prior tax returns going back to 2012, bank statements, balance sheets. I fed everything to OpenClaw and said "read everything in chronological order and figure out my 2025 tax situation." It reconstructed the full entity history: my LLC started in 2019, converted to an S-corp in 2020, became a multi-member LLC (partnership) in 2023, then I sold a small share to an acquirer in 2024, and eventually sold my remaining 90% last year. Having all the prior returns was huge. OpenClaw traced my cost basis through every transition: original capital contributions, income allocations, distributions, entity conversions. It cross-referenced numbers across years, verified how my previous CPA had handled things, and flagged details I never fully understood, like why my ending capital account was negative and what my recourse liabilities represented. It even caught an error. My previous accountant flipped the month with the day for when I sold a small share of my business (5/4 instead of 4/5) which meant I got attributed some income for one month that should have gone to another partner. Didn’t change tax due much, but OpenClaw FTW! By the end of the day, it had prepared a comprehensive summary.md document with all the numbers, forms needed, and open questions. Phase 2: Actually filing (Tuesday) OpenClaw researched TurboTax's current plans and saved me $500 by unburying the $129 TurboTax DIY plan I actually needed. Intuit was trying to sell me a $639 package via a recommendation quiz that said there's no other option for my situation. There was! This was a 4+ hour session where I went screen by screen through TurboTax with OpenClaw guiding every field: - Brokerage 1099: Imported automatically. OpenClaw verified the numbers matched my records. - Schedule C (my solo LLC): I had no bookkeeping done for this, so OpenClaw analyzed all bank transactions and prepared the P&L. I only had to recategorize one transaction because it was a reimbursement for something I had paid for personally. - K-1 partnership income: No actual K-1 yet (the acquirer hasn't filed the entity return), so we estimated my share of the partnership based on bank statements and revenue data. - The installment sale: This was the hardest part. TurboTax kept double counting the gain, reporting it through both the K-1 disposition AND Form 6252. We had to zero out the K-1 sale fields and let the installment sale section handle all the gain reporting. Took several attempts to get right. - Itemized deductions: Mortgage interest, property taxes, local sales taxes, and so on. Uneventful, and OpenClaw correctly predicted the SALT cap limits I'd run into it. TurboTax confirmed those calculations. - Annualized income method: Since the $900K installment came in Q2, using the annualized method on Form 2210 saved ~$3,700 in underpayment penalties. This was quite tedious, and I'm not sure an accountant would have done this for me. I've been told "just pay the penalty" before. - HSA: ~$12K distribution, all qualified medical expenses, $0 taxable. - ACA Premium Tax Credit: 1095-A entered month by month for 11 months of marketplace coverage. I quit the ACA plan in November, in favor of CrowdHealth. No deductions from them unfortunately. At the end, OpenClaw reviewed the final 137 page tax return draft return line by line. Total federal due: $125K, excluding the ~$40K in estimated taxes already paid throughout 2025. — Have you said thank you once, Donald?! What worked well: 1. Document analysis. I threw PDFs and CSVs at it: purchase agreements, K-1s, old returns going back years, bank statements, and it extracted exactly what was needed. Being able to say "look at my 2022 return and tell me what basis my CPA used" and get an answer in seconds was invaluable. Way faster than explaining things to a human. 2. Answering questions in real time. Instead of emailing a CPA and waiting days, I asked "what are recourse vs nonrecourse liabilities?" and got a clear answer in 5 seconds while staring at the TurboTax field. This back-and-forth is what made the whole thing work. Every question I had, answered immediately. 3. Catching optimizations. The annualized income method, investment interest expense from brokerage margin, etc. Small things that add up. 4. Cross-referencing prior years. Having OpenClaw dig through my old returns to verify how things were previously handled gave me real confidence. I could see that the numbers were consistent with what my CPA had done before. What didn't work well: 1. Driving TurboTax directly. I had OpenClaw try to fill in the forms via browser automation. Too slow! TurboTax's multi-step wizards with radio buttons and dynamic forms don't lend themselves well to AI control yet. We switched to me clicking while it dictated what to enter. I'm optimistic this will be improved soon. 2. TurboTax's installment sale handling. This was genuinely tricky. The double counting issue required a creative workaround. A CPA familiar with TurboTax would know the right workflow. OpenClaw had to experiment. 3. No K-1 yet. We estimated the partnership income. When the real K-1 arrives, I'll probably need to amend. This is the same problem I'd have with a CPA though. But if the K-1 preparer was using OpenClaw, maybe I would already have it! What to watch out for: - You need to know your own situation. I'm not completely ignorant about tax prep. I had a reasonable expectation of what the numbers should look like, roughly how much I owed, what the major items were, and so on. I wasn't relying on blind faith. The ability to ask questions and verify things quickly is what built confidence. - Complex form interactions are tricky. The TurboTax installment sale / K-1 double-counting issue could have resulted in extra taxable income if we didn't catch it. Having a sense of what the final number should be matters. - You still need to understand your own finances. The bottom line: Total cost: $129 (TurboTax Premium) vs $8,000 I paid my CPA last year. Also $23.90 in OpenAI GPT 5.4 tokens, including drafting of this post :) Time spent: ~6 hours total across research, prep, and filing. Still faster than dealing with a CPA, and I got much better answers. The biggest difference wasn't the money. It was the speed of answers. Every question I had during filing got answered in seconds. That real-time loop of "what does this field mean?" → clear explanation → enter the number → move on is something no CPA engagement can match. Next year, I'll know the drill. And OpenClaw has memory. That one should be much simpler. Long live the claw! 🦞

@uptonaccounting Had one today! 1st one tho

Anybody else seeing balance due direct debit clients getting IRS letter stating direct deposit info not submitted correctly? Have had three this week, payments processed correctly from bank but this letter makes them think they have a refund out there🤯🤯🤯🤯

@markcecchini Congrats man! Glad everyone is health!

Beckham James made his arrival last night at 7:41 coming in at 8 pounds 9 ounces! Mom and Baby are both healthy and recovering well. B, I cannot guarantee much of anything in this life except for the fact that you will never, ever walk this life alone. Love, Dad

@rledbetterCPA The review side of AI has been so helpful for me. Cannot recommend it enough. Also sending clients links to court cases as been super beneficial to give evidence on why I take / don’t on positions

AI has really changed my practice this year Things I've automated: > Tax return review > Data entry > Client onboarding > Research memos > Follow up emails Things still on the list to automate: > Client replies to DocuSign with a .jpeg of the screen > Client saying "I did crypto in 2021" and then going quiet > Explaining a family trip to Cancun is not deductible even "if we talk about the LLC at dinner" > Client disputing a $1,000 invoice after saving them $14,000 > The 9:47pm April 13th email about the S-election they filed on their own last year > Crying in the shower But the future is here

USERS BEWARE: Taxpayers should not rely on AI-generated responses to complex tax questions or tax return calculations. Learn more about #IRS warnings to ensure your tax security at: irs.gov/dirtydozen