Father in law is an IRS agent. He does them. He uses turbo tax to do them though. I guess I could do them myself, but he doesn't mind.

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ive been trying to do mine on turbo tax...I will see if that's how I finish...we tore down our house and built a new one and shop last year..spent almost 30K in sales tax...paid a lot of cash for stuff...its been difficult trying to figure it out...this is the year I might find a CPA... even saved my gas recipts...I went through 1256 gallons of gas....that's crazy

Folks who get big refunds are doing a poor job of managing their money

Don't hire a CPA, don't buy turbo tax. Just get out a pen, the tax forms, a calculator and stop being such goddamn pussies. Unless you intentionally defrauded the IRS out of thousands of dollars, you have nothing to fear from an audit. Just do the best you can and 98% of the times they won't say sh!t. There is a big difference between tax fraud and making a minor mistake. When they do audit you and find some minor mistake, either say "whoops" and pay a few bucks thinking to yourself that you've messed this up for the last 20 years and they haven't said sh!t about it and multiply those few bucks times 20 and laugh about how far ahead you are OR do what I do and argue and quibble with them writing long tracts disputing everything they say, appealing it, appealing it and appealing it again until you're sure you've wasted more tax dollars in salaries than they are collecting from you, then pay, that way the government loses money auditing you, so they are less likely to do it again.

If a CPA was any good, the IRS would make sure they are not in business by auditing every single client balls to the wall, that makes sure that the only CPAs that are out there are the ultra-conservative types that when there are vague areas in the tax code, take positions as favorable to the IRS as possible and unfavorable to you. Hiring a CPA is like giving yourself an audit every single year. Most people just think of the cost of the CPA himself, not the cost of overpaying on taxes, every single year.

I know several CPAs and I wouldn't trust any of their judgments in anything financial at all.

I hate taxes. I'm not going to file. Let those feds come here and I'll let em have it.

LOL Just Kidding.

I'm going to move to Costa Rica. I wont have to pay tax.