[POLL] - How do you do your taxes?

[Kelemvor]

Just curious.

We always used TurboTax but then switched to TaxCut a few years back. Will use TC again this year.




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[Miramonti]

I have some fairly unusual circumstances that never allow me to use a tax program, and have to do it myself each year.

 

[Drako]

Taxcut, been using it for the past 5 years. I used TurboTax before that, but it costs more and I'm a cheap bastard .

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I get a tax company to do it.

 

[TheNinja]

I just use HR Block online. I don't install any software and can always go back and easily look at past returns.

I don't see a POLL option for it though

 

[Pepsi90919]

what does "I don't live in USA" have to do with taxes?

 

[homercles337]

I have used TurboTax for about 9 or 10 years.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I just use HR Block online. I don't install any software and can always go back and easily look at past returns.

I don't see a POLL option for it though

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[ballmode]

online and early

www.taxactonline.com

 

[Tiamat]

I fill it out on paper, the compare with online turbotax. If turbotax finds a higher refund than I did on paper, I pay for the turbotax that year

 

[WisMan]

I give my info to my dad who does them with turbotax...

Works well for me.

 

[Bateluer]

When I could use the EZ form, I did them manually. But now, its more complicated and requires the full 1040, plus several others. Thus, I use the Online H&R Block program now. Usually works fairly well and e-files very quickly.

 

[krunchykrome]

I do my own taxes, and my fiancee's, and her sister's taxes, and my parents, and my sister and her boyfriend, and a few of my friends. I had to draw a line when friend's parents started asking. I am an accountant, audit to be specific; people automatically assume just because you are an accountant by day, you love to do taxes at night. This year, I am doing my taxes for family only (including my fiancee). No friends!!! Not even for a fee.

Anyways, after the vent.....I do taxes manually by paper. I'm more comfortable doing it this way.

 

[nageov3t]

two of my friends from high school are CPA's.

I trade one of them baked goods for doing my taxes for me.

 

[Descartes]

I give it all to a local accounting firm that charges me too much. In my experience, CPAs are unreliable in complicated tax scenarios and can't seem to provide clear answers.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: ballmode
online and early

www.taxactonline.com

Used them last year, will try again this month.

 

[SampSon]

I have a personal accountant. I have lots of deductions, additional forms and multiple income streams.
I don't trust myself with filing my own taxes anymore.

 

[imported_weadjust]

I am self employed with a LLC and own rental property so I pay the man. (CPA I have known 30 plus years since grade school)

 

[Turin39789]

atot

 

[MyThirdEye]

How do I pay them? I pay them with money.

 

[Minjin]

I used to buy and use Tax Act software. Now I just use one of the online versions that is free if you are below a certain AGI amount. I encourage everyone who is eligible to do the same.

 

[Jadow]

Free turbotax w/state and federal efile courtesy of statefarm.com for policyholders.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I give it all to a local accounting firm that charges me too much. In my experience, CPAs are unreliable in complicated tax scenarios and can't seem to provide clear answers.

Aren't you an accountant?

 

[Orsorum]

I make my own workpapers in Excel and complete my forms by hand. Based on my professional experience, I have an innate distrust of tax software for anything but the most basic filing scenarios.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Descartes
I give it all to a local accounting firm that charges me too much. In my experience, CPAs are unreliable in complicated tax scenarios and can't seem to provide clear answers.

Aren't you an accountant?

Nosir. You might think that because I probably spoke of the work I've done with some of the Big 4s on their accounting software (namely for Sarbanes Oxley). I used to do my own taxes, but it's become far too complicated for me to manage.