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By: Max

Max — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:28:56 +0000

I really considered getting some tax help last year, but I just didn’t know if it was worth while.

But with my taxes getting more and more complicated each year with my home business and investments, it may be time this year.

It just seems to me though like you still have to provide them with all of the necessary information and your financial records, and they’re just sort of putting everything together for you and doing all of the math, although of course they have a much wider knowledge base to figure out the best deductions and steps to take along the way.

I guess I just have a problem with paying others to do this type of thing when it’s not really that difficult to do yourself (more of a hassle), but if it ends up saving me money, then of course it would be worth it.

We’ll see if I take that step this year, I’ve at least made a point of keeping better records this year, so that should make things easier.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:28:25 +0000

There are some things you shouldn’t skimp on and tax advice is 100% one of them (I personally think legal is the other)

By: kenyantykoon

kenyantykoon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:06:19 +0000

this is very useful. i dont have a tax expert because of certain reasons and this means that i find taxing very complicated so i think that there are some deductions that i miss. thanks for enlightening me on this(i think that i am taking frugality too far)