Taxslayer

How hard is it to do taxes if you have investments you need to list? I don't want to pay a ton to go to some place to do them.

Last year it cost $198 but I was out in about 30 minutes.

I used it for my stepdaughter's very basic return a couple of years ago but I would not use it for anything other than that.

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If you want a good tax return that will give you a refund/decrease tax liability an withstand an IRS audit, don't expect it to come cheap.

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This. My old accountant, he died , charged $1000 an hour but I will tell you it was the best money I ever spent! One year I made over $250,000 with MINIMAL write-offs, went exempt all year, and he STILL got me $4000 back for "SS overpayment"! I was a W2 employee at the time and he would change me to a 1099 and say that I was only W2 due to the state laws and in fact I should be 1099 and then he would make everything a business expense. He had been pretty high up at IRS for a long time before he went out on his own so they didn't really mess with his returns. God I miss him!