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Why I Pay Someone To Do My Taxes
From someone whose generally pretty cheap
It’s that wonderful time of year again where everyone eagerly submits their tax information to the IRS in hopes of getting a nice fat refund from Uncle Sam himself. Many people will file their taxes by themselves this year, while some will opt to hire or pay a tax professional to deal with those pesky forms instead. As someone in the latter group of this conversation I wanted to explain exactly why I prefer to pay someone else to take care of a task I could probably do myself. So let’s check it out!
Time
I respect my time more than I do just about anything else. I try not to work more than 40–45 hours per week, and even then I try to offload as many task as possible to my workplace rather than spend my hard earned free time doing it. I probably shouldn’t mention this but, from homework, reading articles, organizing YouTube content whatever it may be, I try to do it in the workplace just to squeeze out a little bit more out of my “dollar per hour” earnings. That being said, I know that if I were to try and do my taxes by myself, I would end up spending a lot of time trying to figure certain things out and then another large portion of my time just second guessing whether or not I did something write in full anticipation of getting hit by an IRS raid on my home all…
