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Title: Do you file your own taxes?
Post by: camellia0 on December 27, 2018, 03:35:31 pm
I do. Some of these tax preparation places charge so much. In the past I have filed taxes for friends to save them money too.
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Post by: alina6 on December 27, 2018, 08:00:31 pm
My wife is a CPA and she takes care of our taxes. I at least know the person doing the taxes has a stake in getting them right.
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Post by: paints on December 27, 2018, 09:51:44 pm
I do.  The amount I get back is not enough to pay someone else to do them.
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Post by: lhz123 on December 28, 2018, 04:32:49 am
We used an accountant since along time ago. My husband taxes is tricky because its commission base and  he got a gas deduction. Its better to be safe and right to file our taxes.
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Post by: rghvac69 on December 28, 2018, 06:44:47 am
When I do my taxes I use turbo tax.
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Post by: countrygirl12 on December 28, 2018, 07:21:29 am
Yes.  The tax preparing places are out for the government not for you the tax payer. Besides that it is not that hard. just use turbo tax or something like that and answer the questions. Why pay half your refund to get somebody to do that for you.
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Post by: gaylasue on December 28, 2018, 07:25:33 am
Yes, I have filed my own taxes.  A CPA did them when I worked with him but since then I have done them myself.  I have used TurboTax in years past.  I now use a free software.
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Post by: ghunter on December 28, 2018, 07:54:11 am
Not anymore, I need all the help we can get.
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Post by: king4cash on December 28, 2018, 08:05:46 am
No. I use a tax agency to do my taxes...
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Post by: hawkeye3210 on December 28, 2018, 02:25:46 pm
Yes, I file my own.
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Post by: timvolley on December 28, 2018, 02:58:17 pm
i buy the hr block software and then do my own my borther and his roomate and my friends
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Post by: vickysue on December 28, 2018, 03:32:38 pm
My husband does ours and then I go over them before  sending them off to make sure he has not  missed any deductions or forget to  add anything he should have. 2 heads are better then one. When it comes to the taxes.  When  we first got married he  forgot to add in some stocks  we sold. IRS sent a letter saying  we owed $1600.00. What  shock so I made  payments on it. Then after we paid it all in when got a check  from them saying we had paid  $900.00 too much. So  he was wrong and they were wrong. Was nice to get that back. So we do a lot of double checking any more.
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Post by: bshee58 on December 28, 2018, 03:54:33 pm
No, haven't worked in years, so I don't file.
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Post by: linsanna on December 28, 2018, 04:49:23 pm
My spouse does ours the old fashioned way by hand, with tax forms.
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Post by: hkckk5 on December 28, 2018, 07:30:31 pm
I don't do the taxes. However, my husband does ours on the computer. Glad he knows how to do this because it saves us some money.
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Post by: tnshpalmer85 on December 29, 2018, 10:12:10 am
I have been filing my taxes for a couple of years now and I love it. My taxes are easy to do so I rather do them myself and keep all of my money. There are also places that do them for free. I don't like to pay someone to do something that I can do for myself.
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Post by: dwiley11 on December 29, 2018, 10:50:24 am
turbo tax is always good for me
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Post by: ajamimajida on December 29, 2018, 02:46:04 pm
I have always did my own taxes.
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Post by: elvisdo on December 31, 2018, 02:38:01 pm
I used to file our taxes but when went with an accountant over the past few years. He has been able to get more money back for us than I ever could.
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Post by: appy9104 on December 31, 2018, 04:17:35 pm
I always did them myself but as the e-file came to be the way,  Turbo Tax has the free online to file the simple return and that worked well quick and fast
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Post by: tantricia44 on December 31, 2018, 05:03:48 pm
No, I can't do it because my math skills are retarded & so bad! I let my Older sister do it, because, she had banking & financing skills.
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Post by: countrygirl12 on January 01, 2019, 07:07:52 am
No, I can't do it because my math skills are retarded & so bad! I let my Older sister do it, because, she had banking & financing skills.

You do not need math skills.  All you have to do is go to irs.gov and I am pretty sure they have everything on their site. You just answer the questions.  Or use one of the other softwares that has been mentioned.  It isn't like it use to be when you done it on paper with a pencil and you had to add and subtract lines.  You just in put the info and the computer does the rest. :)
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Post by: mrisha on January 03, 2019, 07:05:30 pm
Yes, I do.  It's cheaper and easy for me to complete.
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Post by: dreamyxo on January 03, 2019, 10:43:20 pm
Yes I use turbo tax.  Back in the day I would do it by hand.
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Post by: freedomjarhead2512 on January 04, 2019, 12:58:37 am
Hmmm we might have to do this soon.  Being disabled.
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Post by: nannycoe1 on January 04, 2019, 05:24:54 am
I have not filed taxes in years as I don't have any taxable income
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Post by: ccandpam on January 04, 2019, 06:54:01 am
We have an Accountant to do our Taxes because we are Farmers and Self-Employed and there are so many Forms to fill out. I do not understand a lot of the Forms, so we just let our Accountant handle our Taxes.
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Post by: judylucas on January 04, 2019, 08:58:00 am
I have used Turbo Tax before
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Post by: cathy37 on January 04, 2019, 12:37:23 pm
I have always done my own taxes, even when the only way was by mail.  Now I use an online tax preparation service that is simple.
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Post by: linderlizzie on January 04, 2019, 12:50:16 pm
Yes, I file my taxes online. They lead you through the whole process so it's easy and a lot less expensive.

My youngest son, who can ill afford to, pays somewhere between $100 and $200 every year to file his taxes. I can't convince him to even try doing it online.

Go figure.  :dontknow:


 
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Post by: bretay on January 04, 2019, 01:35:34 pm
i have never done so myself...but i will this year as i have to file my insurance on my husbands social security check as a subsidy..
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Post by: braggin on January 04, 2019, 02:20:42 pm
I do them myself, but I use TurboTax to do it to make sure I get it right, or at least as close to right as I am capable of doing.
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Post by: makeblessed on January 04, 2019, 03:34:56 pm
No, I use an accountant; not that my taxes are complicated but I prefer to have a professional who is up on any tax law changes; that is not me!
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Post by: shasha2210 on January 05, 2019, 05:36:37 pm
I'm filing my own taxes this year
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Post by: autumnsparklemom on January 05, 2019, 05:41:01 pm
Yes, my husband does ours.
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Post by: bigfoot951 on January 05, 2019, 07:41:25 pm
I have always filed my own taxes.  With mine being so simple, I don't know why anyone would do it any other way.  But my goal is to create more income from multiple sources where I am forced to pay someone else to do it.
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Post by: heidi0902 on January 05, 2019, 08:25:10 pm
Online sites make it easy to file your own taxes.
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Post by: PGS28 on January 06, 2019, 04:05:33 am
No.  Too afraid I will mess up something.
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Post by: PGS28 on January 06, 2019, 04:06:10 am
I probably could if I wasn't so fearful of the IRS; it looks like just plugging the correct numbers onto the correct lines.
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Post by: shawnix on January 07, 2019, 02:56:33 pm
Yes. I started filing my own taxes after my regular tax preparer passed away a few years ago. I've had no problems so far.
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Post by: gaby_ro_2004 on January 08, 2019, 11:04:22 am
No,we are using an agency.I want to be sure i don't have to pay money later.
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Post by: nmbrown863 on January 08, 2019, 04:42:22 pm
We usually do our taxes ourselves using turbo tax.
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Post by: jenniferhoder on January 09, 2019, 02:41:27 am
I Have had my taxes done by a CPA for about 4 years now. I like the idea that he knows what he is doing and can maximize my deductions, etc. I know it costs me more, but that's okay. I guess the price you pay....
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Post by: sdenimandlace1 on January 09, 2019, 03:20:50 am
I have mine done it, is just easier, that way.
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Post by: squirrelgirl44 on January 09, 2019, 08:05:22 am
Yes. I have always filed my own taxes. The programs are so simple to use, I really don't understand why people would pay to have them done.
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Post by: brian8713 on January 09, 2019, 12:48:26 pm
Yes, I find it pretty easy to do myself. I don't know why some people make such a big deal about it.
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Post by: vg7405 on January 10, 2019, 12:33:31 am
No, I do not. Because of my job, I get my taxes done for free at a local facility. However, I would love to learn how to do them myself (for free) to avoid driving to the appointment and waiting for several minutes.