I hear you Paula... I have most of a degree in accounting and have done all my own taxes since day one... endless hours of paperwork tracking three separate businesses of self-employment for myself, and similar hours of paperwork tracking my wife's life coaching practice and her unrelated eBay business, and then our art gallery have together. Yeah, that's a lot of fun... and at the end of it all we're generally below the Federal exemption anyway, but it still has to be done because of self-employment SS tax. Grrrr....