tax return/refund... accountant in need!

[JERRY2KONE]

For me if all I had was job earnings, or very little income, and no investments going the easy way with Turbo Tax seems the best bet. If you are filing anything more complicated I would lean on the superior education of an accountant for the small fee they charge.

Since getting married 6 years ago my wife insists on doing our taxes herself, and usually retrieves quite a sizable return, so I do not argue the point. Some things are just not worth disagreeing over if you want your relationship to last a long time. Either way we have not gotten less than $4K back in the last six years, and have had returns over $6K. So I am a happy camper. It seems to me that using an accountant is the safe way to go, because he puts his professional career behind his work. If he screws it up he gets sued, right? If you do it with Turbo Tax or whatever you are still liable. Ignorance is no excuse when it comes to filing any taxes. If you cheat and get caught, you go to jail. In the majority of filed cases you end up paying what you owe and a small fine for relatively small mistakes. The only people who truly loose are the very wealthy who try to cheat and/or avoid paying what is owed. If you did not work and didn't make poop for income the IRS does not give a rats A$$ about auditing you. So use Turbo Tax and get it over with. The only way to get more than a couple hundred bucks back is to make a crap load of money and have a lot of tax breaks like business expenses, medical expenses, claiming huge hobby expenses, property losses, or none taxable investments.