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kleinbl00  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 30, 2016

Hire an accountant, mofo. I haven't done my taxes since 2008. I still have to keep shit updated in Quicken and quickbooks but that whole massive form thing? Yeah, I don't miss it.





mk  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Turbotax makes it pretty easy. I just have to undo a IRA contribution, which made it a mess. The one time I used HR block, the next year I found that they made a mistake.

But yeah, as things get more complicated, I'd rather have an accountant as a part of an audit rather than suffering it alone.

blackbootz  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm the first one to admit that TurboTax is an incredibly useful product. But can I point out that Intuit, the makers of the software, spend millions of dollars a year lobbying Capitol Hill to stall legislation that would streamline the tax filing process, enable the IRS to send people pre-populated forms, and even create a return-free filing system?

Accountants, while just as dependent on the opacity of the system for their business, don't then as effectively lobby Congress. But Intuit's software helped 33 million people file their returns last year. H&R Block? 20 more million. Those two companies try their damndest to preserve the mess.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

TaxAct! It's similar to TurboTax, they try to upsell you on everything but it's easy enough to avoid that, and I don't think they lobby to prevent changes to tax codes.

blackbootz  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've heard of it, though have never tried it myself. Arguably any free version of tax preparation software, including TurboTax's free versions, would be better than giving Intuit money. Although there's the whole "if you're not paying for anything when using a service, then you are the product" so TaxAct is probably better than TurboTax in that regard.

kleinbl00  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps you aren't quite to our level of fuckupitude. We have two corporations (three this year), student loans, between 50-100 1099s and a rental.

_refugee_  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a big load of woof.

mk  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, not there yet, thankfully.