It takes me about two minutes to do my taxes. That is how long it takes me to put all my electronic W2s and such in an email, including my routing info for billing, and send it all off to my accountant, wherein it then becomes her headache. I am a doctor, she is a CPA, and we are each good at what we do, so I would never expect her to read her own chest xray and I don't mess with my taxes. Spent a lot of planning time once setting things up so that I always get refunds from state and federal and I hate to write big checks in April unless it is for a new car or some nice kilt kit. And when the refund checks arrive it is a great time for the "hey, honey, I found this really neat tartan that I think I want a kilt in" line.