[vidanay]

I went to a tax preparer once in my life. All she did was read the questions from the "Turbo Tax for Professional Tax Preparers" software on her computer. Whenever there was a subject that I wasn't clear about, her "help" was to simply tell me option A and option B and ask me what I wanted to do.

Worst $500 spent in my life.

[dkokelley]

Important distinction that a tax preparer != a CPA.

[vidanay]

Yeah, I know. That's why I specifically said a preparer and not CPA despite the thread topic.

I just searched the site of the person I used (it's a private family company, not one of those cubicles set up in Walmart) and there's no mention of "CPA" anywhere on their site.