Many users of this site aren’t especially price-sensitive; if you’re one of them and in the habit of using tax filing software, I urge you to consider hiring an accountant for your taxes. You’ll pay a couple hundred bucks, which may be offset by the CPA finding deductions or credits that your software didn’t highlight, and that money goes to someone you’ve picked out and hired rather than a corp that’ll use your money to lobby against your best interests. And you’ll save a bunch of time, which may be enough to make this worthwhile in and of itself for you!
What are some concrete examples of these deductions that people keep talking about? I'd actually like to know, so I can perhaps convince myself to get a CPA next year. The only deductions I have seen as a salaried person with some minor stock trades are things for home heating credits and such which I am always ineligible for on the basis of income.
