Originally Posted by Relentless

You are much better off paying a good accountant a fair wage for his work than paying the government for the faulty work you got done 'cheaply' by a bad accountant... Accountants are like coders, "cheap" is not what you really want even if it is what you think you want. I love when idiots like H&R Block advertise they will get you the 'maximum tax refund' - I wonder where they are when you get audited and it turns out you owe penalties and fines for shortcuts they took to make you feel like they saved you money. It's your liability, not theirs, so a bad accountant is gambling with you bankrolling them... not the other way around.