Re:Ask HN: How did you do your 2023 tax returns?
by toast0 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:00PM
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I did taxes with a CPA twice, and given that I need to sign them, and that I take the fall for mistakes anyway, I needed to review them, especially when weird things happened and the CPAs couldn't explain why.
Collecting all the forms and stuff feels like more of the work than putting into the software, and you've can't delegate that anyway.
Maybe your form entries are harder than mine, but then I'm happy to say no to things because the paperwork burden is high. I have no desire to be a landlord, because in addition to the actual work of maintenance (or even worse, scheduling and supervising others doing maintenance), there's a paperwork burden. I'm even considering dropping my international stock fund to eliminate the paperwork burden of the foreign tax credit.
Collecting all the forms and stuff feels like more of the work than putting into the software, and you've can't delegate that anyway.
Maybe your form entries are harder than mine, but then I'm happy to say no to things because the paperwork burden is high. I have no desire to be a landlord, because in addition to the actual work of maintenance (or even worse, scheduling and supervising others doing maintenance), there's a paperwork burden. I'm even considering dropping my international stock fund to eliminate the paperwork burden of the foreign tax credit.