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I'm just kind of curious about what's considered to be reasonable for professional tax preparation and consultation.
For the purpose of this poll I'll be discussing a return that is somewhat beyond 'basic' and has items that might be more prone to audit. The return consists of:
- Married couple with one retired and the other self employed as a real estate agent
- One pension distribution and two IRA distributions
- Social Security income for both
- 15 items of interest and/or dividends
- Schedule C with <$100k gross receipts that shows a small loss.
- Schedule E with two rentals
- Several stock sales reported in bulk
- Depreciation on the rentals
- Office in Home expenses on the Sch C
- Sch A with a lot of medical but minimal charitable contributions
- State return with no special adjustments
Generally speaking I see higher prices in major metropolitan areas than in other areas so I'll include that as a factor. If you participate please pick whether you're basing this on a major metropolitan area (M) of a rural/suburban market (R).
For the purpose of this poll I'll be discussing a return that is somewhat beyond 'basic' and has items that might be more prone to audit. The return consists of:
- Married couple with one retired and the other self employed as a real estate agent
- One pension distribution and two IRA distributions
- Social Security income for both
- 15 items of interest and/or dividends
- Schedule C with <$100k gross receipts that shows a small loss.
- Schedule E with two rentals
- Several stock sales reported in bulk
- Depreciation on the rentals
- Office in Home expenses on the Sch C
- Sch A with a lot of medical but minimal charitable contributions
- State return with no special adjustments
Generally speaking I see higher prices in major metropolitan areas than in other areas so I'll include that as a factor. If you participate please pick whether you're basing this on a major metropolitan area (M) of a rural/suburban market (R).