Tax season. Who does your taxes and how much do you pay?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tax season. Who does your taxes and how much do you pay?

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:15:55 PM EDT

Do you do your own taxes or pay someone else to do them?

Do you file single or joint, itemized or non-itemized?

How much do you usually pay someone else to do them if that's the case?

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:16:40 PM EDT

[#1]

1040ez

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:16:48 PM EDT

[#2]

TaxCut for the feds...I do the state myself.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:16:51 PM EDT

[#3]

<-- does them

EZ Form

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:17:11 PM EDT

[#4]

fileyourtaxes.com

about $30/person.
I've used it the last 3 or 4 years now.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:17:18 PM EDT

[#5]

I pay roughly 120 bucks to have somone do them for me.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:18:54 PM EDT

[#6]

My CPA.

About $200....worth every dime. That is just my return and doesn't count the monthly charges.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:19:08 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
I pay roughly 120 bucks to have somone do them for me.

Single/joint? do you just have a w2 or do you itemize?

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:20:35 PM EDT

[#8]

I have a retired business accountant do it for me. She has done it for the past 9 years. She knows every legal trick of the trade. She charges me all of $30 bucks to do mine and my wifes, plus the wifes business taxes. For that amount It is well worth not having to do the hassle. She also files all the fed stuff for me. She runs it both ways on the fed and goes with the best.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:21:28 PM EDT

[#9]

CPA and pay him about $100 or so. Not bad considering he usually has to handle a W2, several 1099s and about $10k in work-related deductions each year (no house, kids, or other deductions for me).

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:36:16 PM EDT

[#10]

I work for H&R Block and get to do my taxes myself for free.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:38:26 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I pay roughly 120 bucks to have somone do them for me.

Single/joint? do you just have a w2 or do you itemize?

Joint, I think itemized, I dunno what she does. I know we have quite a bit of deductions, it may be itemized.

See, this is why I pay someone to do it. That way, i know its done right and I know I'm getting the maximum return possible.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:54:35 PM EDT

[#12]

TurboTax. About $30.

Posted: 1/13/2006 5:58:09 PM EDT

[#13]

brother in-law. He does it for free

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:09:56 PM EDT

[#14]

I went to H&R block for about 5 years straight and every year the fees went up. I'm not rich by any means and the last time I used H&R Block was 2003. I'd estimate my bill to be around $140+. Last year I used Turbo Tax for the first time and it was quicker and I saved $100+ easily.

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:12:25 PM EDT

[#15]

I stopped using H&R Block after I had to pay one year. The following year I started going to the CPA and instantly started getting a return. Seems H&R Block doesnt ask any question, they just plug in numbers and thats it. Around here anyways

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:14:09 PM EDT

[#16]

Jackson - Hewitt!

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:15:03 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I stopped using H&R Block after I had to pay one year. The following year I started going to the CPA and instantly started getting a return. Seems H&R Block doesnt ask any question, they just plug in numbers and thats it. Around here anyways

That's what got me started doing my own.

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:17:07 PM EDT

[#18]

I do my own, itemized.

A colleague of mine did the same, and then he decided to go to a CPA because we both started wondering if we were missing all kinds of clever deduction. He didn't get any different result with the CPA than what he had calculated himself, but got to pay $500 for the priviledge of a CPA checking his math.

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:21:23 PM EDT

[#19]

I do my own and Tax slayer crunches the numbers and files for me.
Cost: $9.95 total for both state and fed.

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:25:55 PM EDT

[#20]

Turbo Tax. About $40 for fed, state and local.

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:34:32 PM EDT

[#21]

married, filed jointly, itemized with a couple of schedules...

CPA about $300.

He also went back and checked over my prior returns and found 2 LARGE mistakes.

The prior CPA was recommended by my father-in-law.

He now uses mine!

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