Courtland "Cory" Van Deusen, CPA is featured in Accounting Today's March 1 article about life during tax season.

A View from the Trenches

Handling the IRS, clients and the other frustrations of tax filing season

March 1, 2016
by Roger Russell

For Cory Van Deusen, a tax partner at Buffalo, N.Y.-based firm Lumsden & McCormick, tax season is a challenge that he looks forward to. “But if you ask me on April 14, I might sing a different tune,” he said. “That’s because by then I won’t have seen my family for the entire season.”

“I’ve learned to exercise more during tax season than outside of it, to help relieve stress,” he said. “And I try to leave work by 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. two nights a week.”

Many employers will be unprepared to face ACA reporting requirements, Van Deusen noted. “Last year, Form 1095 was optional. This year, employers have to do it, and they need payroll and health insurance data that may not all be in the same place. Some companies offered to do it as part of a package, but stopped accepting engagements to prepare the forms. We’ve had clients that asked us to prepare them. We’re asking clients if they have developed a plan for it. A lot have already talked to a payroll company or insurance broker, but it’s too late now to get payroll companies to take it on. We’ll be doing some of that for our clients.”

Read the full Accounting Today article here.