No dumb questions: What tax clients are asking this tax season

Clients worry about crazy things every tax season, but this year their fears and obsessions and just-plain-odd ideas seem to be taken to a new level.

“In recent weeks, there has been a flood of information regarding the current state of the IRS, some of which has resulted in conflicting reports, creating confusion,” American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Mark Koziel said in a statement about the season. “With the volatility of the present environment and rapidly changing events, it is important to reconcile fact from fiction for taxpayers and their advisors.” 

So clients are also continuing to voice a high level of loopy tax ideas — and tax preparers, as always, are responding with handholding and practical advice.

Still, “confused” may seem a mild word to describe the questions that clients are asking so far this season.