Emeralds,Why not do your own tax returns from now on? It sounds to me as if you are eminently capable of doing them and saving yourself the professional fees.
Emeralds,
Your comment is a bit unfair.
...............................What is unfair about that?
I would encourage people to do as much as possible themselves as they have a greater interest in the outcome.
The OP says that his affairs are simple. He understands the tax story. So he should take back control.
Brendan
Hi Steiner,
Ordinary people such as myself use & pay professional fee's to qualified accountants to do a job on our behalf. And in the reasonable expectation that the Tax filing is done correctly with all relavent Tax free allowances are applied. basic book keeping stuff, no complex off shore scheme.
I hired him as I didn't trust myself to navigate the tax system as I'm not familiar with what I'm looking at. it's not my area. I hired a professional.
But maybe your right, I should have saved my money & hired someone out of the classified ad's seems the risk to me is the same eh?
We appear to have a Plethora of regulations setting up sheltered professionals ,yet accountability ???
I ask why employ a sheltered professional when they remain lax and effectively unaccountable??
.................Gerry, please explain how exactly you consider accountants to be "sheltered"?
Emeralds,
Your comment is a bit unfair.