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Old 12-31-2012, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Bavarian View Post
Turbotax
By the time you fill-out the accountant's three to five page questionnaire, you could enter the same data into TurboTax--all for under $50. The accountant plugs your data into an enhanced version of TT. (The enhanced version of TT allows for unlimited number of returns.) My retired relatives are also stuck in the same accountant groove. If they would only try it once, they'd never go back to the accountant for $250-$350. If you were self-employed and required an accountant for business, that might be a different story but most personal returns are not complicated, and TT couldn't make the tax prep process any easier.