It is important that you always look for and verify professional and qualified help. You know that in the case of tax preparers, there are plenty of "ghost preparers", who at the moment the tax season ends, pack up office and disappear, and, more often than not, either you will never see your refund, or your taxes were never sent to the IRS to begin with.Check the IRS website, there you can see if a preparer is verified by the IRS. There you should ask for references and revise reviews. Not everyone prepares, studies, and presents the exams to give the best consult to a client.
A big firm preparer will probably just know how to work their software, and do work an AI could do. No critical or lateral thinking on their part on how to best aid their client.
It is important to have all of your documents regarding your income and expenses, so that you can give them to your accountant, so that they can analyze them and correctly report them so they can be used to file your taxes.
There are many changes to tax law which are not communicated through the usual channels, as such it is impossible to catch up unless you have a tax advisor at hand year round.
Don't wait until the last moment, there are forms which you do have to wait for the end of the year, like the W-2 or the 1099, but you can have the rest finished beforehand.
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