{"id":95,"date":"2016-08-31T21:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2016-08-31T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:50:27","slug":"does-tax-software-prepare-your-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/does-tax-software-prepare-your-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Does tax software prepare your returns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that if you go through the software&#8217;s interview process then the software is preparing your return.<\/p>\n<p>However remember that the software is preparing your return based on what you told it. Therefore it&#8217;s important to review returns before you send them out just as you would if some tax professional was preparing your returns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen from IRS audits the software&#8217;s artificial intelligence is not the same as the intelligence of a thinking human being. For example it keeps on asking you questions and you keep on entering the same amounts at different places until the IRS finds them for you. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to look over the tax return before you send it out or e-file it.<\/p>\n<p>The Tax Court still looks at errors in self prepared returns as (GIGO) garbage in, garbage out. I believe however that as artificial intelligence evolves, in time, software developers will have to take the moral and ethical responsibilities for what they&#8217;re doing. You&#8217;re seeing this already with self driving cars and drones and robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Even if eventually tax software developers will be penalized as preparers nevertheless you as a taxpayer still remain responsible for any taxes and penalties and interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that if you go through the software&#8217;s interview process then the software is preparing your return. However remember that the software is preparing your return based on what you told it. Therefore it&#8217;s important to review returns before you send them out just as you would if some tax professional was preparing your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,35,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsontaxcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}