Robert Flach, The Wandering Tax Pro, writes today in a blog post titled Manual Labor that,
A manually prepared tax return is not automatically inferior to or less accurate than a tax return prepared using software. Just the opposite can be true. The basic law of software applies here – Garbage In, Garbage Out. Individuals and tax preparers alike should not rely on tax software as a substitute for knowledge of Tax Law and experience in actually preparing tax returns.
I agree with everything Robert says here. A manually prepared return can be more accurate than a computer generated return.
However, given that we are in the 21st century and tax preparers have an unprecedented array of technological tools available to them, the filing of a manually prepared return is more likely than the filing of a computer printed return to raise IRS eyebrows.
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