Back 10 years ago I had a complex tax situation and my gut feeling on reading the IRS booklets is that the tax preparer (I tried 2 of them) were taking the "saf

Back 10 years ago I had a complex tax situation and my gut feeling on reading the IRS booklets is that the tax preparer (I tried 2 of them) were taking the "safe" route to prepare it. I called up the IRS hotline and they directed to me an expert who agreed that I could file it in a better way that saved me $5000+. And they were even willing to go over the form line by line to help me fill it out. I've heard that since then the help lines have been gutted as part of a crusade to weaken the IRS in auditing rich people.