Ask the Readers: Are You Filing Your Own Taxes This Year?
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It's that time again — tax season! While some people feel confident that they can file their own taxes correctly, other people are more comfortable hiring a tax professional to give them a hand.
Are you filing your own taxes this year? Why or why not? Do you use any programs to help you prepare your taxes?
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No, the husband is a small business owner
TurboTax always works for me and i find it fairly easy to use
Maybe. Either I will do magic on my taxes myself or I will get a helping hand from my beautiful assistant.
This was actually my first year ever paying an accountant to do our taxes -- that's because it was also the first year that I was going to have taxes for my art business. I didn't want to take the chance of them getting messed up. I made sure I have all of my earnings, expenses, etc, totaled up, but I didn't have to worry about the schedule c forms and such. DEFINITELY worth the money and peace of mind.
We are having a professional do our taxes for the second year in a row (and second year ever). We have been told we could maximize our refund, and what we pay for the accountant will be more than covered in our refund. I hope so.
I used taxhawk (free) this year after using H&R Block at home software for the past two years, and it came out exactly the same. Works for me!
I will file my daughter's taxes, but will pay a CPA to do mine.
I'm having my CPA do my taxes this year. Way too complicated for me to figure out all the possible money-saving deductions on my own. Since we started using a CPA, we started getting tax refunds which more than pays for it.
I have always filed my own taxes - even when my husband owned a business; although we had a lot of help from my father accountant. We usually use Turbo Tax online.
We are paying a tax preparer because our finances are complicated.
I filed my taxes myself using turbotax online. Sinice I get a free federal return and have simple finances, I don't feel it's worth it to pay someone else at this time.
I've been doing my own taxes for the last few years. My taxes are fairly straight-forward, but I like using software to double-check myself. Previously I've been using TurboTax but this year switched over to H&R Block.