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2026 Tax Season Update
Happy New Year! With the new year comes our favorite time of the year…. tax season! Who’s ready? We are!
This is a big year for us in a couple of ways. The first being it’s our tenth anniversary of Smith & Harding Associates. I’d like to personally thank every one of our clients from that entire ten years. We appreciate your trust and loyalty and I look forward to a long future together.
The other part of this being a big year is there are some pretty significant changes in tax codes this year. The OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bold Act) that was signed into law July 4, 2025 should help to reduce overall tax for many taxpayers. With this act there are aspects of taxes that will increase the complexity of most returns. We will need additional documents for some of these credits and there will be more manual calculations required for correctly filed tax returns. We are finalizing our tax organizer for this year now. As soon as it is complete we will send them to you electronically as well as have hard copies available at our office.
With that said we will be changing our tax preparation model and will no longer prepare taxes while meeting with our clients. Preparing accurate returns is always our number one priority and there is just too much room for error with the new changes. We will need undivided attention to each return and making this change will allow for that. This will allow us to work exclusively on each return with no distractions to ensure accuracy and compliance with all of the new changes. That does not mean that you won’t have the opportunity to sit down with your preparer if necessary. We will have review appointments available after your return is complete that can be scheduled if needed.
So what will this look like? As soon as you have all of your documents together you can either drop them off to our office in person Monday thru Friday between the hours of 9 am - 5 pm or any time day or night to our secured document box at the front door or you can upload them electronically to our secure portal. Your return will be completed in the order it is received and you’ll be contacted to sign the return so it can then be efiled. If we don’t have all of your documents you will then go back in line according to when we do receive all of the necessary documents. If you need an appointment to review the return or you have any questions for your preparer it is then that one can be set up for you or you can choose an available time from our electronic schedule system.
We look forward to this tax season but most importantly the changes that should result in lower taxes for our clients. We’ll see you all soon and HAPPY TAX SEASON 2026!