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TaxCut Not for Paid Preparers – Or is It? | 24 comments (24 topical) | Post A Comment
TurboTax Invokes the Restriction[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#8)
by Anonymous User on Thu Feb 19, 2004 at 08:28:45 PM PDT

You wrote that you are "not aware of any attempts Intuit has made" to invoke the provision against use by paid preparers. I guess you haven't used TurboTax. It invokes that provision on every return by printing "Self Prepared" in the space for the paid preparer's name. This effectively makes it impossible for a paid preparer to use it.

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Easy way around[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous User on Fri Feb 20, 2004 at 09:04:05 AM PDT

Copy the data by hand to a fresh tax form and then fill in the preparer's information. The real work in taxes are figuring all the worksheets and the numbers, copying the numbers from the "unusable" print-out to a blank form is a pretty light price to pay... Or is the "Self Prepared" is printed light enough, write the preparer information over it.

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Or better yet[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#10)
by beamdriver on Sun Feb 22, 2004 at 02:50:39 PM PDT

Cut out the preparer info box from a blank form, tape it over the relevant area on the printed from and then Xerox the form and fill out the info.

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