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Your Family The greatest people in the world. Most of the time. Unfortunately, most of the time doesn’t include income tax time. Because the last thing you need when you’re doing your taxes is an aunt who took an accounting course just before she dropped out of college. Or a father who thinks how much money you make and what you do with it is something the rest of the family should know about.

Your Neighbors You know the type. The mild-mannered shoe salesman next door who suddenly turns into a mathematical genius just about the time income tax is due. He knows all the angles. Some of which even the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t know about yet. And he’s willing to share them with you, “Just to be neighborly.”

You Your own worst enemy. All year long you can’t balance your check book, but that doesn’t stop you. Armed with your W-2’s, a few reams of paper and a couple of gallons of coffee you bravely attack that stack of forms. You may be taking deductions you’re not entitled to, and entitled to deductions you’re not taking. So, should you be doing your own taxes? _

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