04-17-2007, 01:20 PM
[quote bassguy]Not really any more work than it would be to put all the info together to give to someone else.
That's always been my feeling about doing my own taxes. Unless you dump a bag of receipts and bank statements on the CPA and ask him to sort it all out, you're doing all the hard work and just paying him to run the numbers through TurboTax. Yes, some people's taxes are complicated enough to enlist a CPA but most can be handled by anyone within a couple of hours, once you have the numbers pulled together.
That's always been my feeling about doing my own taxes. Unless you dump a bag of receipts and bank statements on the CPA and ask him to sort it all out, you're doing all the hard work and just paying him to run the numbers through TurboTax. Yes, some people's taxes are complicated enough to enlist a CPA but most can be handled by anyone within a couple of hours, once you have the numbers pulled together.