Why go to an Enrolled Agent, your trusted tax professional, to do your taxes?

If you do your taxes alone, you just might miss out on some opportunities to keep you hard-earned cash in your bank account----which, when all is said and done, is the goal at the end of every working day for just about everyone.

Instead, consider this:

1. Work with a Human Being...and Lose the Fear of Making a Costly Mistake.       In theory, TurboTax should calculate the numbers the same way any accountant would.  But deep down, don't you wonder whether a human accountant could find more deductions than a computer program?  By working with a trusted tax professional, you can ask questions, and deal with problems as they arise, by interacting with fellow humans, rather than an indifferent computer screen.  Over time, you might actually learn to trust the people helping you out with your taxes! Then you and your accountant will be able to come up with new and clever ways of actually saving money on you taxes--ways you never would have come up with on your own.  
2. Access to the Correct (and Better) Tools and Education.                                     Enrolled Agent's (EA) as a general rule, work with much more sophisticated software than the average amateur has access at home. This means less chance of error, which can be major benefit in the long run.  Also, a qualified tax professional will almost certainly be better educated in the tax field than you are, and can ensure that you find the most savings possible while avoiding any dangerous tax pitfalls.  
3. Save Time and Money.                                                                                                 There's a lot of find print and complicated tax code to sort through come tax time.  By working with an EA possibly, save money.  In addition, an EA can assit you in charting out financial strategies and investments in advance.  By thinking ahead with a savvy tax professiona, yhou will save time and money now, and in the years to come.  

Source Tax Coach Software Winter 2015 Newsletter.