How can I get expert help if I still have to find my income info that I don't want to do?

[pastelskies]

If I choose to pay an expert, won't they still need info from me that I will still have to go hunt down? All that is so miserable for me, I would pay for another to do it, but how could they do it without knowing my info? I don't have w-2's. I have a tax write-off but don't want to have to scan it to show the expert. GrubHub won't send my income and I don't want to search through 36 weeks of email details to add them up. I don't want to record daily miles. That's too miserable. But I did take an odometer picture before starting and at end of year, and should have miles shown in my Google Account somewhere, but I don't want to have to hunt yet another thing down. I bought crypto many times but lost it all and have no idea how to add up what I bought and what I lost. Coinbase is wrong. It can't see what I sent to my trading account. It is such a nightmare I am going through great anguish just to figure out how to even get someone else to do it. If I pay someone and still have to go through the misery, then how do I get the help? So lost and full of despair! How do I get the help without the misery?

[Vanessa A]

So basically, you are correct.  There is no way for anyone to do your taxes without having all of that information.

For this year, you will need to search through all of the information to figure out your income and expenses and miles.  Be careful with the before and after odometer pictures as you need to make sure you are not including personal miles.  So, even with Google, if you ran to a restaurant for yourself, you cannot include those miles so you would have to separate all personal from business.

To make it easier for next year, you may want to open up a separate bank account that your Grubhub money goes into so you can easily track that income. You could also use QuickBooks Self-Employed, which you could enter your income and expenses weekly then every week mark the miles in QuickBooks that are business as business and personal as personal.  Doing it weekly will be a lot less miserable than trying to wade through it all at the end of the year.

When you do track down and compile all of your information, if you want an expert to do your taxes for you, you just click on the live button in the upper right hand corner to have them done for you or simply get help doing them yourself if you just need a little guidance. 

[pastelskies]

Thank you for your help, Vanessa, but I now don't know why I would get the help if I really have to do all that anyways, and then pay on top of that. The paying is so I don't have to do a thing at all. Tracking stuff weekly is way more miserable having to do that all year long when I'm dreading it even once. I will have to figure out something easier. Even 1040's gave me such trouble being the easiest. But I appreciate your reply.