Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
Catriona you're not an accountant, but maybe you're a bit addicted to this tax filing stuff or you really do get treated well to dinners by others...take it as a compliment.
Blech, if I'm going to be doing people's tax returns, I don't want to be responsible if they go to jail for tax evasion!

It's really not all that much work for the majority of people if I tell them what I need and they have all that organized ahead of time, then I just sit down for an hour or half an hour and plug in all their numbers. Turbo tax autoupdates on the previous years data, so it pretty much already knows what to ask for if nothing's changed. IF they do it with me one year, they usually learn what I want for next year. So it takes a little longer the first year, not a huge deal the years after that.

My Mom's always terribly generous with me anyways, so it's not a big deal to do her taxes even if hers are probably the hardest... Her friends'll usually give me some money if I've done their taxes, I try to refuse, they insist, we go back & forth and I usually end up taking it. My baby brother's my baby brother (I'm usually spoiling him), and my sister alternates between giving me money or thinking it's a family privilege.