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TaxCut Not for Paid Preparers – Or is It? | 24 comments (24 topical) | Post A Comment
A Good CPA is Easier & Cheaper[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#7)
by Anonymous User on Thu Feb 19, 2004 at 08:12:34 PM PDT

My own experience is that hiring a good CPA is easier and cheaper than buying a difficult and possibly unreliable piece of software. Plus, I just took a class given by another CPA who illustrated how he reduced a couple's $200,000 income to $2,000 of federal tax. No software will ever do that without a human expert analyzing things. Anyone that does their own taxes without a good CPA is wasting money and deserves all the grief they get. Pennywize and dollar foolish!

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Finding a good CPA[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#14)
by Anonymous User on Fri Feb 27, 2004 at 11:51:02 AM PDT

This is a non trivial task. I remember asking several CPAs about a state tax credit for stay at home moms. They all looked at me and said I was crazy. When I finally got through to the state tax office on the phone they confirmed the existence of the credit. That credit saved me $1300 for two of my children ($2600 total) over several years.

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$2, 000 in taxes for a $200,000 income[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 02, 2004 at 08:16:19 AM PDT

Wow, if a CPA did that, I have only one response - tax fraud.

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