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"Sunshine Funshine" How are you guys filing your taxes this year? (H&R, TurboTax, professional CPA)? I'm still in Uni thinking of a tax preparing career, wondering how you guys go about tax season.

"Tax Preparing Career" dude just tell us if you're theaccountingmajor 2.0

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I try to not support H&R Block, TurboTax, or other slimy companies that actively lobby against a simpler tax code. But I'm sure plenty of CPAs belong to professional groups who do the same thing, so my outrage probably shouldn't be limited to the big tax prep companies.

 

In the same boat as ya'll.....this year is going to suck.

Last year our CPA estimated we'd be paying 2-3k more this year after tax reform.

Director of Finance and Corporate Development: 2020 - Present Manager of FP&A and Corporate Development: 2019 - 2020 Corporate Finance, Strategy and Development: 2011 - 2019 "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
 

Where there are two CPAs there are three opinions.

Unless you have a particularly complicated tax return, I wouldn't bother. If you're going to use a CPA because of a complicated return, it might make sense to use a CPA who specializes in the industry in which your, say, business operates. I took my home building (my side hustle) tax return to a generic tax-preparing CPA several years ago and he was just straight-up wrong in his analysis.

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For the most part as long as you’re being paid as an employee the options are rather limited.

Having a side business or an investment property to run some expenses through can help.

 

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