O'Connor Ventures

08/31/2026

Hope to see everyone there.

🎈 OLD SETTLERS IS A WRAP… NOW IT’S TIME TO LOOK UP! 🎈

What a weekend! We hope everyone had an amazing time celebrating Old Settlers. 💙

But the fun in Lacon isn’t over yet…

🔥 27 DAYS TO GO! 🔥

Our countdown to the Foam & Flight Hot Air Balloon Festival is officially ON! 🎈🫧

📅 Saturday, September 26
📍 Marshall County Airport
🎟️ FREE family event!

Hot air balloons 🎈
Foam 🫧
Food 🍔
Family fun 🎉
…and a night we can’t wait to share with Lacon!

Old Settlers may be over, but we’ve got one more BIG community celebration to look forward to!

👇 Who’s counting down with us?!

Drop a 🎈 in the comments if September 26 is already on your calendar!

05/20/2026

Not sure this has ever happened in our history. Does anyone know of this being done before:
In a one-page document signed by Attorney General Todd Blanche and dated Tuesday, the Justice Department said the defendants in the president's lawsuit — the IRS and the Treasury Department — are "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED" from "prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims" that arise out of tax returns filed before the settlement took effect Monday.

Wish I could get that for all my clients (not that any of them need it).

04/27/2026

Spread the word, this isn't from one of my clients, but I did have one call yesterday that might fit this:
Recently, the IRS has had major computer glitches.
Anyone else with clients that owed AND the amount owed was withdrawn from their bank account on or around April 15, 2026, are receiving erroneous IRS CP53E Tax Notices / Letters stating:
“ We couldn’t direct deposit your 2025 Form 1040 refund. ”
I even had one client emailed me that they owed but the IRS deposited rather than withholding the exact amount. This one should be interesting other than I think the IRS will soon be asking for that money back plus the amount that was owned.
In other words, this client owed $2K.
IRS deposited $2K into their bank account in a major computer error.
Soon the IRS will be asking for $4K, the $2K deposited in error and the $2K actually owed.

REVIEWING the comments (this is a tax preparer group posting) it appears this is a rampant problem. Please take a minute to make sure you received both your Federal and State refunds and/or either agency did indeed "take" the amount you owed from your account.

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04/16/2026

From what I can tell this Donald Rumsfeld did send this message with his tax return in 2014. Pretty good summation of the situation.

04/16/2026

Thank you all for your patience as we tackled another challenging tax prep year.

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02/22/2026

Office lights are back to so cold blue. Had that nice warm up tease and now back to burrrr. At least no major white stuff like out East is expecting.

02/19/2026

Long time no post. I did a little simple math, the $1,000 to every child born in 2025-2028 will cost the country approx. $10.8 billion. There are approx 3.6 babies born annually times $1,000 time 3 years. This isn't a political note, just a fact I wanted to share.

02/08/2026

The office window lighting has been changed to RED in celebration of Valentine's Day / week. Have a great week

01/31/2026

Thank you all, I reached my goal very quickly, but did stay up a bit for some drone coverage. Weather was windy, but sunny and not too cold. Now back to taxes.

01/31/2026

Here are the electronic ways to contribute to my release. Note they are supposed to not work before 3pm on 1/31/26. Also check back tomorrow, trying to see if I can run a promo- like one free basic (up to $100) tax prep, or $100 credit for a more expensive return to either a contributor at random, or perhaps the largest $ contribution (if a tie, the first one to pay the amount). Will let you know about the promo tomorrow before the event if it is feasible.
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or for the QR Fans