I've done the same for many years, but I closed two businesses last year and the complexity of the filing instructions got to me. Making a mistake would cost me a lot more than having a preparer do the job, and/or support me if I needed help during editing and with resultant penalties.
I don't enjoying paying the bill for a preparer, but there are times when it is the right thing to do. On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Paul Sorenson <allarou...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Yup - been using TurboTax for close to 20 years. Happy with the results and > it's sure cheaper than paying a preparer. > > -p > > On 4/16/2011 2:53 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> Turbo Tax Home and Business >> >> On Apr 16, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> The cost of the tax preparer this year outstripped what I owed in >>> taxes by almost 10:1. Grr. >>> If it had been more reasonable, I would likely have used the money to >>> buy a plane ticket somewhere ... Oh well. That will have to wait a >>> little. >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mark Roberts<m...@robertstech.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Noticed that my income tax refund had appeared on my bank statement >>>> today. And it was several hundred dollars *more* than I'd asked for. >>>> Seems I made a mistake in the government's favor and they caught it >>>> and corrected it. I suspect some enablement may result... >>> >>> -- >>> Godfrey >>> godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
