If you have any knowledge of taxes, I recommend reviewing your tax return yourself before your accountant submits it. I made the mistake of hiring a CPA for the first few years living here just because we had a lot going on with moving and so forth, and I found a total of 4 mistakes in 2 years returns.
These were very simple tax returns and finding these errors resulted in a much bigger refund for us as well. Not to mention because I used to do them myself I made it very easy for the accountant with organization and notes/explanations to spell everything out. I have now resorted to doing my taxes myself again.
Cost for me to do our taxes on Tax Act this year? $20. Actually $13 because I had a $7 incentive credit offer for Tax Act from my credit card company!
Cost for using that accountant who made errors in the past? $350 per return.
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