Tax Preparation Ripoffs: How to Avoid Them

By The Insider

The Insider reveals how those big tax preparation chain offices rip consumers off with a varied amount of schemes as well as exposing several tax preparation rip off schemes from third parties, and identity thieves. This book will save you money.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G.A.L. Publishing
• Release date: Apr 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781497781498

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ATTENTION!

If you have had your taxes prepared at any one of the nation’s tax preparation chains, there is a good chance that you have paid more than you should have.

This eBook isn’t about getting you to allow me or anyone that works with me to do your taxes, as a matter of fact, I don’t even prepare taxes anymore professionally. This eBook is about arming you with the needed information to avoid paying hundreds of dollars more for your tax prep services than you need to. I guarantee that the $1.00 you spend on this book will save you money. Perhaps even a hundred or more dollars.

No, I won’t try to teach you to do your own taxes, no boring accounting or tax law information found here. The truth is that there are many ways for these places to rip you off, and I personally got sick of seeing it happen time and again.

WHO AM I?

I am the tax prep insider. I spent the last two decades working for major tax prep chain companies, preparing taxes, training preparers, and managing their offices. For obvious reasons, I cannot reveal my real name as I do not want to be sued by those I worked for and some of the information I am going to give you is based on direct experience with those companies and the people who worked there. Take it for what you will.

There are a few things I need to say first though before you get to the nitty-gritty of this eBook. First, there are some real talented people working for these companies, former CPA’s, bookkeepers and accountants who just need a little extra income. Most of them are honest and hardworking. But then there are the others.

The others are those who in October have absolutely no idea what a 1099 or a W-2 is and by January are quasi-experts on taxation. After all, the owners of these tax prep offices need butts in seats to pound out as many returns as possible. The 4 to 8 hour courses these people take are supposed to teach them all they need to know about taxes.

We’ll discuss more of that later. Second, 90% of the customers of these tax prep chains simply don’t NEED to use them. Their returns