I just got back from a second go-around with the free AARP tax preparers at my local Sr. Center. Since I've not got much, and am nominally retired, it should have been an easy return (not for ME, however...the weight of the intstuction book alone scares the hell out of me). The first time around she forgot to credit me with a loss carried over from '01. God knows how I managed to catch it, and after pointing it out my tax payment was cut to a third of what she originally told me. Finally got that straightened out, much shuffling of papers, and just as I was signing my life away, getting ready for her to file electronically, I realized she'd typed my name in wrong, given me a different middle initial. And I had to really struggle with her to not only get her to change it, but to give me new copies with my real name. Now I'm wondering if the $250 or so I saved was really such a good idea?! I went over everything again, finally let her submit it. Now all I have to do is come up with the cash...and hope the return is at least mostly right.