I have a good tax preparer at HR Block. She's been doing it for 20 years and she knows about stocks & bonds. Two years ago I went to Jackson Hewitt and was audited by the IRS. They said I owed $12,000. in under payment and interest for a year. I went back to Hewitt and the yound man who did my taxes was overwhelmed so he sent it to the home office. They returned it to him a week later telling him to fix his own mess. It took months and 2 CPA's to get it corrected.
NidifugousOPYap, Federated States of Micronesia1,430 posts
ooby_dooby: I have a good tax preparer at HR Block. She's been doing it for 20 years and she knows about stocks & bonds. Two years ago I went to Jackson Hewitt and was audited by the IRS. They said I owed $12,000. in under payment and interest for a year. I went back to Hewitt and the yound man who did my taxes was overwhelmed so he sent it to the home office. They returned it to him a week later telling him to fix his own mess. It took months and 2 CPA's to get it corrected.
Good lord I've been with the same CPA for many, many years. We're family friends, you know. I can't even bother with H&R or Hewitt because of the international stuff. It would be a nightmare to clean up a mistake with that stuff. Since GW, the new rules for int'l stuff have become a nightmare.
NidifugousOPYap, Federated States of Micronesia1,430 posts
Draegoneer: I'll know more Monday. I don't get federal returns and come really close to breaking even on the state levels.
I hope at the worst, this holds true again this year.
Don't you have to file, either way? One year, I was up in school and didn't file in that state because I had no income. 5 years later, I got a notice from them assessing taxes, fees and penalties because they assumed that I just didn't file and had income. I had to prove to them that I had no income Try and prove a negative, you know. So I said to them: "prove I had income." One of many nightmares.
Yes! The State forms were in the Mail on March 18th and Federal forms in the mail on March 23rd... Easy-does-it, works for me: First week of March, only focus on gathering the forms needed. The second week, only focus on either State or Federal and of course, on the third week, finish the last filing... And if you want, take the entire fourth week of March, to dance around the post office before mailing.
Nidifugous: Don't you have to file, either way? One year, I was up in school and didn't file in that state because I had no income. 5 years later, I got a notice from them assessing taxes, fees and penalties because they assumed that I just didn't file and had income. I had to prove to them that I had no income Try and prove a negative, you know. So I said to them: "prove I had income." One of many nightmares.
I actually play my deductive options for taxes. I've gotten overly decent at figuring what to change and when. Federal is easier because there's a much bigger spectrum to play with on the exemptions.
I leave the state levels alone. They're too close to try.
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I have to do mine this weekend