In the past, I’ve used TurboTax for all of my tax prep needs… but most of my needs were simple and easy to handle. But a couple of years ago we changed states and my employer had issues with my pay: they paid state taxes to two states and TurboTax was ill equipped to handle this issue.

Well, this happened for two straight years. And I had a CPA completely handle my 2007 income taxes. Good thing I did. Where struggling through TurboTax had me netting about $2,500, my CPA was able to handle the two state snafu correctly and had me netting about $7,000… well worth the $485 fee!

So I decided to have him look over my 2006 taxes and work that magic again. This time around, he was able to get me $3,400 back on top of what I had already gotten from the Feds and the states. Again, totally worth his fee.

We got our check from the state department of revenue today for $3,100… the $2,900 from the amended return plus $200 in interest. And with that, Sallie Mae gets out of our lives!

Hurray for CPAs!!!