Tax Questions: Who's Your Expert?

[KarenL]

Admit it! At least once in your life, you’ve asked a friend or co-worker for tax advice. It’s okay - we’ve all done it. For the rest of you, who don’t trust your financial life to your friends or work buddies, it seems your choices are limited. You could search it up and gamble that what you land on is correct. Better yet, post on social media! The answers to all of your burning tax questions can be found there. Right?! (Maybe not the best of ideas.)

Between reading dozens of random blogs or sifting through a myriad of responses from social media friends and helpful types, you’re probably more confused than ever. And don’t even try to interpret the roughly 7,000 pages of ever-changing tax code. It’s a daunting task for the best of us.

Exhausted from all that research, you decide to take the “advice” that helps your tax situation the most. That makes sense! As your refund increases, success is yours and all is right in your world! It’s time to book that trip you’ve been wanting to go on, maybe buy that new tech you’ve “needed” for a very long time. Life is good!

Then one day (maybe the day you’re packing for that trip), you receive a letter from the IRS. They’re changing your tax return and removing some deductions you claimed. It seems your friendly “social” tax advisors weren’t really your friends at all. You were led astray and took deductions on your taxes that you weren’t allowed to take. Uh oh! (To be fair, neither of you really knew it wasn’t correct.)

Instead of gambling with your tax refund, what if you got advice from someone trained (and tested) to have the knowledge and expertise you need? Your biggest challenge is simply to figure out how you want to get your personalized tax advice. 

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