| Focusing on federal taxes, that means finding offsets for 17 to 20k worth of income.  I'm not sure you've answered the question about the value of a professional.  Was there a point where you said, e.g., 
 "Huh!  TurboTax never told me I could deduct what I spend on CDs and music downloads because I listen to music when I walk dogs." or
 
 "Huh!  TurboTax never told me I could write off my entire mortgage payment as a home office because I have a laptop and wireless Internet."
 
 Or something similar.
 
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