Who do you have do your taxes or do you do your own?

My husband used to do our taxes, but our younger son will take over as one of his in-laws works for an income tax company. I could do taxes myself, but I do not like to do them ever since when I was working, my boss did not take off enough and I found that I had to pay more. Our taxes are rather complicated as before my husband and his sister were doing the estate taxes for his mother and not long after she passed, he got als and so even though he could do them, his hands do not work. Now he has disability, and there is also the renovation tax credit, so we have to have someone who knows the tax laws and what is allowed to do them. There is no simple forms anymore.

When I went to get my taxes done last year, I went to H&R Block. They wanted over $300 to do my taxes..that's not even with any type of rapid refund option. I refused and said I would go somewhere else. The lady that was employed there actually said that she didn't blame me and that she would do the same thing. I found a small office with a few CPAs there and they filed for me for $55. I got more back by going to them because if the cost. The refund amount was the same. No way I will go back. They are a rip off.

We do Turbo Tax, and Hubby does them. I leave it all to him at this time. It works out okay for us. I feel the computer program has less variables than a human being.

I have gone to H&R block for the last ten or so years. They have always been good to me and I have never had any problems. They also have a special thing that you can buy that they garantee gtheir work and a representative of the firm will go with you if you are audited. They are great!

I have a tax consultant who submits my returns but I take decisions about where to invest. I just give him my figures and he gets his clerk to fill up forms, etc which I just sign. I have been doing it for several years now as it makes things easy for me. May be the revised forms are easier but since he has been doing it for me for a tiny amount I wish to continue the practice.

For years I had an accountant do my taxes for a premium price. I did learn how to keep good records. I recently moved home to care for my aging parents (dad has Alzheimers) so I have to do everything, including taxes for the first time in my life. Dad lives on investment income so there was a lot to learn. But, the first year I did them, after getting so cunfussed, I went to Turbo Tax and I'll never do it any other way again. All you have to do is have your 1099s or whatever, have records of expenses, interest and all that other income and expense info - which you should have anyway. Go on line - they ask the question, you answer - you plug in the information they request, they figure it all out - even come back and go over items that were not completed, and question things that don't seem right. In the end, they tell you what you owe or get back, you file on line....and in three years, I have not had a single problem. It is easy, cheap and a good way to go. If you are filing a simple form, the cost is something like $25!

My wife and I have some other income besides our full time jobs. We have a home-based business that makes us a little money and she has been known to do product demonstrations and mystery shopping, too. Each of those become deductions for mileage and maintenance of the cars. As you can probably figure, this tends to make our tax return a bit complicated. That is why I buy and use TurboTax every year. We usually come out of tax time with a refund.

My bro is a CPA and he does mine for free

My company is withholding our taxes every payday. And every year, they have printed all our withholding taxes and all we need to do is sign our name. They're the ones who will forward it to the appropriate government agency. If one has a problem on it or need to clarify something, we just approach our accounting department for clarifications. Ordinary employees cannot get rid of taxes as it been automatically deducted on our salaries, but multi-national companies do. And, I don't think thats fair.

I am a salaried person and I always calculate my income tax myself.