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Audit my taxes and find my CPA's mistakes

In a thread about a Garmin MCP and privacy tradeoffs, a commenter says the AI found errors his CPA had made in his returns. Amending them recovered over $100,000, at the cost of feeding the agent a lot of personal financial information.

$100,000one time

How it works

  1. Feed return information into AI
  2. It flags errors the CPA made
  3. File amended returns
  4. Recover over $100,000

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent out-audited a professional CPA on his own returns and the fix was worth six figures.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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