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BornElephant2619 t1_je8ahrr wrote

Reply to comment by Asianmamacita in My husband and I owe 22k in taxes but we only made a combine total of 75k by one-eye-owl

Sometimes you get bad accountants. My husband hired one to do ours the first year we were married and we owed sooo much money. We took it to another accountant who said, "well yeah, they didn't do any of your deductions..." She charged us half of what the other guy had and we owed less than 1/10th of what the other person had told us. It was absolutely infuriating but a lesson learned.

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jinsaku t1_je8ay3y wrote

My first CPA is serving a 20 year jail sentence for embezzlement. My current CPA firm is awesome.

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BornElephant2619 t1_je8bga1 wrote

Oh gosh. That's kinda crazy, imagine losing 20 years of your life because you got greedy ... I don't think this guy gave enough effort to figure out how to embezzle. He charged us $300 (16 years ago) to do less than basic turbo tax would have. He had his own gig going.

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Asianmamacita t1_je8amvd wrote

Yes tax preparers can be bad but they should still be capable of efiling for you. So the fact that he does not file for them yet “helps” them makes me think it’s a ghost preparer

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Weed_Me_Up t1_je8k07f wrote

Or ours..... This was the year we had our first child so we knew we were gonna get some money back.

Friend hooked us up with a shady ass accountant. We got back more than 15k that year!

Well about 5 years later we got audited. Tried to get in touch with her, but she was in federal prison for fraud lol.

We ended up paying about 2 or 3k back to IRS so wasnt too bad

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