re: OT Accountants, a question

If you agreed to their billing rates and the amount of hours it required to complete, then no there's nothing you can do. use someone else next time.

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I'm getting the "shitty records" vibe from this guy.

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What floors me is he said the bill was after a 40 percent discount. Dealing with the foreign income is probably a grand on the spot. Crappy records could easily be 3500 if the cpa had to do an entire year of compiling records.

Posting in this thread for later - many people do not understand the time effort and training that goes into sorting records, posting entries, recording depreciation, reclassifying transactions, etc.

The first step is assessing what needs to be done, then doing it, then having that work reviewed. Most firms' quality control will not allow end of year accounting and tax work to leave the office without a reviewer. You could have debt allocations, basis limitation, active vs passive loss and every line on a tax return has some sort of limitation or worksheet that feeds into the main return.

Plainly put - I have some smalls like you that get their returns done for 1300-1500 and some that run over $5K - it really just depends. If you are waiting till now to get things done, my guess is that you are a mess as I have have a lot of experience that would point to that conclusion.

You want a serious reply, but will be having H&R block do your taxes?


El oh el

Foreign income. That's part of the problem. I'm not sure he gets that. Anytime I have a dispute over a bill, I sit down and show them the detailed time logs and what all went into the finished product.

Everyone thinks their taxes are simple.

Usually the only simple thing is their thinking it's simple.