I filed my income tax returns. Yes, with TurboTax A note about printing
Before I filed, I did pay so that I could view all the supporting documents that one cannot see just by "view my return." (Or something). It really helped because their numbers did not match my Excel spreadsheet for the state. Fixed that. Duh, too smart for my own good.. 
Anyway, I just viewed them. Now, that I filed, all I can see are the basic documents which, I think, were filed. 40 pages vs. 110! Well, I wanted to see the Social Security Worksheet, for example. But could not get into the same menu.
So I went to the help section and someone suggested to "add a state." Indeed, I have done it in previous years. No, I did not add a state but it gave me the main menu with the view print and I found the version with all the supported documents.
Still, I could not download it. At least not on my iMac and Firefox browser. Thus, I used the trick that I use with other documents/images: right click on the mouse and saved it on my Desktop.
I am getting too old for this sh*t
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Some people need to file paper tax returns because they have an unusual form or a prior identity theft, but most can e-file.
Filers who submit paper returns risk an array of problems, such as key-punch errors on name or taxpayer ID numbers, or even a form getting dropped on the floor. When pandemic tasks like stimulus payments diverted IRS resources from return processing, a large chunk of the backlog was paper returns.
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I have been using them since 2000 and, of course, they have changed.
Still, except for two years ago I know my way around and our returns are pretty simple: Social Security and RMD and on occasion selling stocks. A busy itemized deductions, though, so.... I am staying for now.
Good luck
Maybe I'm naive, but I'm certain he does things right.
It seems like you have vastly more complicated taxes than I do. I'm one who has benefited enormously from the recent increase in the standard deduction. Lucky me. And my income is relatively low, again, lucky me.
So how much time do you save? And what, exactly, is that time worth? I recall several decades ago when the husband of a good friend spent at least 20 hours doing their taxes, and all I could think was, "What are you paid per hour? Could it possibly be cheaper to pay someone else to do your taxes?"
I realize for you, doing your own taxes could easily be an hour or two, and so more than worthwhile. I might actually be able to do my own taxes, but for me, paying my accountant is well worth the peace of mind. And if you have peace of mind, that's fantastic.
Did you really? Yeah, it was great, but at the same time they got rid of the personal and dependent exemptions which would have been $4,150 in 2018 had the TCJA (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, aka "Trump tax cuts"
not gone into effect. The standard deduction would have been $6,500 for single filers in 2018 had not the TCJA taken effect -- instead it expanded to $12,000 thanks to TCJA, for a net increase of $5,500. So yeah, for someone who takes the standard deduction before and after the tax law change, it looks like an increase of $5,500 - $4,150 = $1,350 in what one subtracts from AGI to get taxable income. Well, that's not bad.
All numbers above are for singles. For married filing jointly, all would be double that. Not an enormous windfall, but certainly noticable.
Oh, and the marginal tax rates dropped from 15% to 12% for the 2nd bracket, and 25% to 22% for the 3rd bracket. (The first bracket remained at 10%).
For me, who itemizes deductions both before and after the tax law change, it was a negative -- because I lost the personal exemption, while the increase in the standard deduction did me no good because my itemized deductions exceed my standard deduction even after the standard deduction expansion. So basically, speaking of 2018, my taxable income increased by $4,150 just from the lost personal exemption.
Each year thereafter, the personal exemption would have increased by the rate of inflation (had it not been "Trumped" out of existence), as does the standard deduction. I'm just using 2018 since it is the first year that the TCJA went into effect.
Being somewhat poor has its advantages.
I will add that for the very most part I have enough money for most of what I want. If I had more I'd probably do more travelling, or stay at nicer hotels. Meanwhile, I do travel a decent amount, mostly to science fiction cons four or five times a year.
Oh, and the fact that I live alone, my one son is now 40, grown, completely on his own, also helps. I don't happen to have grandchildren, and probably never will, which is fine, but also keeps my spending way down.
