I have a client who is the tantamount PIA, doesn't bring things in, promises to drop by with stuff, doesn't show up, has told the SUTA office that I prepared payroll for this year so they should call me about missing documents, the list goes on. He hasn't brought in tax material for 2017, I still need about three months to finish his corporate bookkeeping to do a corporate return. So you guessed it, I want to cut him lose.
Then this morning I had an e-mail telling me he has been offered a job at a local airline but needs income and employment history/verification from 2011 forward, and would I please provide data. It includes this phrase: "I hope you have a good idea of how we can do this so I don’t lose out on the opportunity". I can provide two W-2's, he hasn't paid himself at all, to my knowledge in 2018. In addition to being a PIA, he has a history of domestic violence, he beat up his daughter (in his words "I disciplined my daughter"), so badly that his wife grabbed their other two kids and the daughter and fled the home. The daughter now lives with grandparents in Idaho because she is so afraid of her dad and the wife would also leave, but can't because the court won't allow her to remove the kids from the state, it might make dad feel badly doncha know.
Part of me is on a rant here because of the e-mail and veiled threat that I might cause him to lose an opportunity. More than that though, I want to cut him lose and not prepare anymore work for him at all including the outstanding 2017 returns. I don't think that's a problem, but it is late and I'm concerned about something coming back at me. My office is now in my home and my husband is here all the time, so safety isn't an issue, but I don't want to end up defending myself against something stupid. Any suggestions for the letter to fire him?