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We have gone to H&R Block for the past several years. This year it only took about an hour, and a good fifteen minutes of that was shooting the breeze with our tax preparer because his computer hadn't booted yet. Not only that, but we got our money direct deposited within two weeks. They might be overwhelmed, because it is tax season, but you are just as important as everybody else. If it isn't anything complicated, they have had plenty of time to get them done. Good luck!
You should be able to do an EZ form blindfolded. I'm a trustee for a trust fund and used to do it myself (zoinks!) but this year took it to a CPA, he told me within 2 weeks (this was yesterday.) DH has self employment and I did our own in a day on software.
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I didn't realize that there are people that do the EZ form and pay someone to do it for them. It's so straight-forward. It's been years since we've done the EZ form, but I don't remember it taking long at all since it only asked for a few things.
I think you should pull your business from this guy if he doesn't get it done today. If you aren't comfortable doing it yourself, you may be able to find help from another agency or even from a volunteer group though your local library (check into that). There is also free tax software that you can find online to help you do it.
I agree, call back and let them know if they are not done this week you would like your paperwork back and will be doing them yourself.
I do ours on my own. I usually buy turbotax, primarily because I used it the year before and it will carry all our information over and i'm lazy But we have had great luck and ours are really not simple as we have our mortgage interest, the baby, her daycare expenses etc... no more EZ for us, lol
Takes us a two days to itemize the business catagories then we drop the info off at the accountant who takes about two days to get them completed. It's kind of complicated with the buisness, employees and homes in two states.
We used to go to H&R Block who had a "business specialist" do them, but they royally screwed up three years of taxes that then took a year to clear up. We way overpaid those years. Got the overpayment back, but it left a sour taste about H&R.
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I'm not a fan of H&R Block - we went to them years ago, but they charge for each "form" or something on top of their charge and it cost us over $200 one year - too much.
I will be calling the office today, shortly; will see what their excuse is this time.
It just seems to me that it shouldn't take 3+ weeks when you have all my stuff, right there, when I'm there. Nothing difficult.
I didn't realize that there are people that do the EZ form and pay someone to do it for them. It's so straight-forward. It's been years since we've done the EZ form, but I don't remember it taking long at all since it only asked for a few things.
It may seem straightforward, but a mistake on the EZ Form cost us more than $4K about 10 years ago. Plus interest. Fortunately, our accountant (who ALWAYS does our taxes now) is a friend of the family and refuses to let us pay her for her help with our taxes. (Our mistake was in using the EZ Form. Walt cashed out some stocks and whatnot and was supposed to use some special kind of form for it. Oops!)
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But we have had great luck and ours are really not simple as we have our mortgage interest, the baby, her daycare expenses etc... no more EZ for us, lol
Fortunately, our accountant (who ALWAYS does our taxes now) is a friend of the family and refuses to let us pay her for her help with our taxes. 
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