Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Wow, Bob (Jazzmammal). So some paid preparers have deposits into their own accounts and don't have a record of who it is for? That's a mess to figure out.


Does anybody know how much of a vig those places that say "Come and get your tax return early!!" to mask the fact that it's nothing more than a short term loan with interest charge the suckers? Someone said it's often as much as 25%. I know the legit tax places like Block do it but there lesser known places who do nothing more than run a bootleg copy of Turbo Tax can charge anything they want. (I don't know why anybody with a very straightforward tax return would ever pay a preparer. Exotic returns with things like income from rental property, capital gains taxes and such, I get that. But for a working schmuck like I was my whole life, it's "This is your taxable income. This is your tax. Subtract and sign." To pay 100 bucks for that....why?)

Bob, you may know.