How much did your accountant charge you?

makes me glad i picked a real school.... i would love to have clients ask to see it, and then ((wham)) whip it out.... (my degree i mean)

if i could have made the post shake at the moment you read the word WHAM, that would have been awesome!!!

been a fun day, i woke up with a hangover at 2 pm, so i started drinking to cure the hangover...

a hangover is your bodys way of saying "we need another drink, why did you stop ahole?"

then again i dont really want to do personal tax, unless its for a REALLY great company that does taxes and tax advisement for the really rich, that would be cool...

Turbo Tax.  Might be my last year of using it.  I have no idea.

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Edited by Zilla 2006-04-25 7:18 PM

in my opinion a good tax accountant would also set you up with a strategy for this next year, how you can estimate and minimize your liability.... did she do that? did you ask?

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I heart my accountant...he is so cute and stout....like a rugby player, and also from South Africa with that great accent....exactly what one looks for in an accountant!

I do my own taxes, hence I pay nothing.

Tyrant wrote: " then again i dont really want to do personal tax, unless its for a REALLY great company that does taxes and tax advisement for the really rich, that would be cool..."

i had a team memebr from south afric at my old kinkos store it was awesome, customers would say "the english guy"

"we dont have an english guy" (puzzeled look)

"the australian"

"we dont have an austrailian guy" (puzzeled look)

"the accent"

"oh the african american from south africa (whitest dude you have ever seen, except for ireland)"

good times....

same way here, they; as i said; are my dream company if i go into personal tax. i met one of their recruiters and she was awesome, i have to say my teacher was great BC she told them good stuff about me.... i really like them as a company, and i hope to intern with them so i can see more of their fine company. that would be weird if we both ended up working for them.... dont tell them that my spelling sucks....

i thought you were gonna say how much you like me, knowing that i was going into tax accounting.... the lady love it, and go wild when i say "im going to be a tax accountant..." drives them wild....

Not many is all I can say without looking at it. The errors had do do with a capital loss from a stock that had split, changed names, then I sold 9/10ths of it in 2004 and the remainder in 2005; as well as working in 2 different states with 3 different localities. But that's the whole reason I hired him in the first place! The 403b and adjusted ROth contribution stuff actually went OK.

He came highly recommended from 2 different sources, one a lawyer, and the other a retired CEO.

I should have listened to my first instinct at the sit-down meeting that he charged me $45 for. Wierd, I thought I was interviewing him, but really I was paying thru my butt. I don't even know what purpose that meeting served now, except as a warning I didn't pay attention to. We just didn't "gel", and I continued to go with him since he was so highly recommended.

I may try doing my own next year, this was teh first year I ever used an accountant, the past 4 years, I've used turbotax.

thats when you as the consumer go to someone else... your a customer.

Sounds like you would have been netter off going to a used car salesmen.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I think turbotax can ask more intelligent questions than my accountant did. At least when turbotax asks me to calculate the basis for my capital gains/losses, I can't get mad at it. When the accountant can't figure it out on his own and I have to do it anyway...that's what really got me riled up...I wanted to avoid all that aggrevation, and I ended up have to dig through files, do math and give him the numbers anyway (even though he had both the original sales & purchase information).

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Then again, I had to put up with him for 20 years of my life, the least he can do for me is prepare my taxes. After all, I never did tell our parents about that party in high school (which I still use as leverage!)