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Posted by Ernie Klein on February 23, 2007, 6:50 am
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> Missy wrote:
>> A human tax preparer usually saves you more money than they
>> cost you.
> I've heard from more people that the style of their tax
> preparer is to send a 'checklist' of things to bring or fill
> in the numbers. This is either mailed in or dropped off to
> his office. A finished return is given back, with little or
> no discussion or council. If this is not typical, then my
> apologies. In any case, it would seem that most of the
> dialog occurs after the tax year has ended, in which case
> I'd be curious what a human preparer would uncover which the
> human tax payer would not have already provided.
Garbage in, garbage out.
If the preparer doesn't ask the question and the taxpayer
doesn't have a clue then is some cases the TurboTax
interview may even be better.
My father always did his own taxes. Many, many years ago
after he passed away, my mother went to a preparer for a few
years. Not a store front, but two different CPA's who
specialized in tax. Over three years my mother an I found
several items that were either entered incorrectly or
omitted altogether. In both cases they filed amended
returns for her without charge, but we, not they, found the
errors.
Since then I have prepared all of our returns. Like most
things - if you want something done right, do it yourself.
That doesn't mean that you don't have to put forth the
effort to educate yourself and keep abreast of changes of
the tax laws.
Not for everyone perhaps, but it works for me.
--
-Ernie-
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