How do y’all file taxes? Tired of giving TurboTax $100 every year.

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By paying a CPA way more than $100 to prepare and file them for me.

My old CPA was around $600. New one is $1800. But my tax situation has evolved pretty dramatically, and the fee is worth the level of effort and complexity.

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If you are in the neighborhood of Hastings St. In Vancouver BC. Try First United Church on Hastings St. And Jackson St. By The hair salon. It's free for not so complicated tax refunds when you want to declare your income to the government.

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$100 is NOTHING. Hire a proper accountant and you’ll see what tax prep actually costs.

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AARP sponsors free tax preparation and filing for anyone over 65 in our area. Being that this is a large space and missile research area our taxes were done by a retired rocket scientist last year.

TurboTax is great

I've got an accountant, but he costs way more than the $100 TurboTax charges. It's well worth it for me to save myself the headache. I'm not sure there's a better cheap option out there than TT.

I’ve been using TaxAct the last 5 years and it’s never steered me wrong. I don’t have anything super complicated - self employment, investments, W2, and at one point I had a house 😅
I’m sure for more complicated stuff it may not work, but everything’s pretty straightforward.

I switched to FreeTaxUSA. No complaints but I also have a very straightforward tax situation

Many times that much to HR Block so that it gets done RIGHT and I'm not wasting precious time learning tax laws each year. WELL worth the time save!

My partner thought I wasn't doing a good enough job using TurboTax, so we paid a ghastly amount for a CPA to do our taxes one year. The result? I did a better job finding is deductions with TurboTax than the CPA. 😆

I used TurboTax for a number of years, the cost was getting steep for me, and ended up with FreeTaxUSA last year. I have a super simple tax situation though and am comfortably entering it in myself. I think the cost of finding someone is worth it if needed, if not, I’d shop around some.

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