@pk
Thank you. I have no problem paying the government what’s owed to them and providing all the money they require lawfully. I just feel like I have a target on my back because of a mistake made by the tax preparer.
The thing is, I understand that we are ultimately responsible for the return filed and need to review it before the tax preparer submits it. But how can WE (the average individuals who need to hire a stranger to do our taxes) be responsible for reviewing the tax forms when we don’t even know what we’re looking at? If we knew what we were doing, or knew how to interpret the forms, or understood that a box needed to be checked, we wouldn’t pay a tax preparer hundreds of dollars to do it for us.
That’s what bothers me the most: the individual filer is held responsible to ensure that a professional, college-educated tax preparer filled out all the forms correctly, even though we don’t know what we’re doing in the first place.
