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i will do it for $350M
I will do it for one leg only
Oh, and as to your question about MA, you will probably still need to file a part year resident return (even if you had no wage income) because you lived there for 1 month of the year. Even dividend and interest income should be prorated for that time.
But check the instructions. There might be some lower income threshold that you fall under, so you may end up not having to file at all. My guess is you will end up having to file, though.
Would depend on how complex the return is. I know some tax preparers for partners at the old firm I was at would charge $1000 per return. But this was a fee toward people earning mostly between like $500k and $2,000,000 per year, and some made much more than that. So perhaps the price was inflated because the clientele could easily afford those figures
Following either way. I don’t know if $1000 a return is high or low. I think my old firm would charge $3000 for high net worth client returns, but these returns usually had a lot of activity (investments in many pass throughs, interest and dividend income from various sources, cap gains and losses, other income, etc)
1000 might be low. That’s 3 hours @ 350(ish). Any amount of complexity should push that up. Running joke when I was at a national firm was that we couldn’t get an SOW out the door for 450.
As far as OPs question. Fbar adds risk and assuming that you have additional foreign reporting the return is not easy. 1000 would be most likely the floor (depending on where you live)
$2500