Jackson Hewitt Tax Service

You’re KILLING me Larry!!!
So, I finally got my W2 in the mail from my 2009 employer on the 14^th. For whatever reason, I guess I deserved being ignored & sent IMPORTANT LEGAL documentation the day before the deadline. That in itself is another story but let me just say that peoples true colors start to bleed through once your not working for them anymore.
All that bull$hit aside: happy thoughts, me and my husband decided to go to Jackson Hewitt to try to get our taxes in by crunch time. I already put in for my extension but jointly filing would have been SUPER ideal. We ended up sitting down with tax preparer Larry Badgett. Booooy were we in for an experience!
Highlights & Low-​lights:
*Had an appointment (if it’s deadline week you’d want to make one)
*This office is independently owned
*Different tax preparers are most likely on a 1099 or some sort of base + commission sort of compensation plan
*We have nothing against Larry, but he was just real chatty and obviously formulated his own opinions about us (stereotyped us to the extreme)
*Just to clarify: we came in with our parents since we ALL still needed to file last minute & for what ever reason he made us feel belittled (like we were just young kids that need our parents & can’t pay for anything ourselves)
*On that note, he had this idea that just because we said our parents were picking up the tab that we’d have a problem paying him; he made such a BIG DEAL out of it (I mean, we all have the money-​they were just picking it up for us since my hubby’s their baby boy)
*Oh & just because we all rolled in one car that day– he assumed we didn’t have a car (WTF? Go green?!)
*Like I mentioned, he was very chatty (which was a MAJOR drawback) & he is also easily distracted (kid touching the desk/​phone ringing/​etc)
*We most likely sat there a lot longer then we should have
*We have a one finger typer on our hands!
*When inquiring about our 2008 filing, he made it seem like we filed them fraudulently
*Not so kid friendly
*Good or bad: he is very «by the book»
*We ended up just having my husbands taxes done for 110 bucks (that’s including a $ 25 discount) HOLY MOLY!
*If you can do it yourself– Tax Act is one of the best
Larry just wasn’t the tax preparer for us. Different strokes for different folks, right? Plus, I’m not use to paying for getting my taxes done because my uncle usually does them for FREE (my mother-​in-​law just took care of my 2008 batch hence me not knowing too much about that years filing-​like I really need to explain myself to the Unilocal world).
Anywho, I’d recommend one of the other agents at this particular location.