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My mom spends easily that much with her tax preparer who is an independent person who tries to dissuade usage of software like TurboTax. My sister spends about

My mom spends easily that much with her tax preparer who is an independent person who tries to dissuade usage of software like TurboTax. My sister spends about $100 to file, and they have simple W-2 stuff. I know several folks at my church who spend $50-$75 on TurboTax or something similar every year. I just spent like $200 to file mine with TurboTax only because I have a very simple 1099-K/Schedule C since my wife sells things on Etsy. I know Schedule C can range from my simple setup to absolutely ridiculous, so I don't totally grudge it. But at the same time, there are a lot of small business owners where that's a big chunk of change for them.

dh2022 1y ago
At Costco TurboTax with Business (or something like that) costs around $79.99 + tax. It has Schedule C [0]. Next time you want to buy TurboTax maybe buy it from Costco - $200 for your usage scenario looks like over-payment. [0] It also has other things such as RSUs, stock sales, real estate, cash distributions from businesses, etc... For personal taxes I do not see why anyone would pay a tax accountant as opposed to using TurboTax. [Edited some formatting tags]
- jonah 1y ago
  That often doesn't include their in-app purchases per-state for electronic filing.
  - dh2022 1y ago
    Thanks, I did not know that - I live in a state with no income tax.
ge96 1y ago
Haven't filed mine yet for 2024, I did a bunch of side gig work eg. driving door dash, uber eats, donating plasma... been put off by that (having to track every mile). Also I usually end up owing too. I think the worst thing I had to do was write a FIFO calculator to go through my thousands of tiny crypto transactions back in early 2020s thankfully I don't screw around with that anymore (especially when I got rekt and lost $4K)
- lisbbb 1y ago
  No semen?
  - ge96 1y ago
    Don't you need to have qualifications like have a degree Also while I have intellect, I am defective like anxiety, bad genes (or maybe it's not genes but environment anyway I'm not who I want to be)
    - GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
      fight eugenics: lie.
      - user_7832 1y ago
        Bravo, this is, quite possibly, the most morally chaotic (in the alignment chart context, [0]) comment I've seen on hacker news, much less in 3 words. Off the top of my head, this can be a topic of discussion in Nash Equilibria/Tragedy of the Commons/Game Theory just from an economic lens. I don't have any formal education in these fields, but I'm sure there are fields in general philosophy ("Given presumably others too have lied and done it, are genes of anxious liars actually better than that of an anxious honest person? But if they go ahead, don't they become a liar? Maybe their conscience makes them still a better person?") and medicine too ("Is honesty even inheritable? How significantly inheritable is anxiety? Does it even matter? - Because for example apparently almost 30% of all humans have a depressive episode. Maybe most humans already have the genes but it's just not expressed?) I'm rambling a bit, but I just wanted to show how much 3 words could be expanded if someone wanted to analyse it thoroughly. Really love the comment. (I don't personally condone lying but I do appreciate a good philosophical dilemma and discussion.) 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragon...
    - underlipton 1y ago
      The most infamous requirement: men under 5'9" need not apply. Would have been a nice budget-bolster...er... during college, but alas.

dh2022 1y ago

At Costco TurboTax with Business (or something like that) costs around $79.99 + tax. It has Schedule C [0]. Next time you want to buy TurboTax maybe buy it from Costco - $200 for your usage scenario looks like over-payment. [0] It also has other things such as RSUs, stock sales, real estate, cash distributions from businesses, etc... For personal taxes I do not see why anyone would pay a tax accountant as opposed to using TurboTax. [Edited some formatting tags]

jonah 1y ago
That often doesn't include their in-app purchases per-state for electronic filing.
- dh2022 1y ago
  Thanks, I did not know that - I live in a state with no income tax.

ge96 1y ago

Haven't filed mine yet for 2024, I did a bunch of side gig work eg. driving door dash, uber eats, donating plasma... been put off by that (having to track every mile). Also I usually end up owing too. I think the worst thing I had to do was write a FIFO calculator to go through my thousands of tiny crypto transactions back in early 2020s thankfully I don't screw around with that anymore (especially when I got rekt and lost $4K)

lisbbb 1y ago
No semen?
- ge96 1y ago
  Don't you need to have qualifications like have a degree Also while I have intellect, I am defective like anxiety, bad genes (or maybe it's not genes but environment anyway I'm not who I want to be)
  - GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
    fight eugenics: lie.
    - user_7832 1y ago
      Bravo, this is, quite possibly, the most morally chaotic (in the alignment chart context, [0]) comment I've seen on hacker news, much less in 3 words. Off the top of my head, this can be a topic of discussion in Nash Equilibria/Tragedy of the Commons/Game Theory just from an economic lens. I don't have any formal education in these fields, but I'm sure there are fields in general philosophy ("Given presumably others too have lied and done it, are genes of anxious liars actually better than that of an anxious honest person? But if they go ahead, don't they become a liar? Maybe their conscience makes them still a better person?") and medicine too ("Is honesty even inheritable? How significantly inheritable is anxiety? Does it even matter? - Because for example apparently almost 30% of all humans have a depressive episode. Maybe most humans already have the genes but it's just not expressed?) I'm rambling a bit, but I just wanted to show how much 3 words could be expanded if someone wanted to analyse it thoroughly. Really love the comment. (I don't personally condone lying but I do appreciate a good philosophical dilemma and discussion.) 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragon...
  - underlipton 1y ago
    The most infamous requirement: men under 5'9" need not apply. Would have been a nice budget-bolster...er... during college, but alas.