I donated around 5000 books to charity, should I get a tax preparer
I normally do my taxes on turbo tax but I recently got a well paying job and donated roughly 5000 books to a local charity. I don't have an exact count of the books but I do have a count of the boxes of books and pictures of the two truck loads it took to ship. I also received a receipt that verifies the amount of boxes. The person who was taking the books said I could value them at about 50 cents per book.
Would it be beneficial for me to get a professional tax preparer or could I continue to file using TurboTax?
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No, you don't need a professional tax preparer to handle such a donation. TurboTax can handle this just fine.
One cutoff you should be aware of (and TurboTax, etc. would tell you this) is if you donate more than ,000 in non-cash donations (of a given type), you would need a qualified appraisal per the instructions for form 8283 (assuming you're itemizing deductions). However, claiming fifty cents a book (which seems reasonable assuming they're in readable condition) puts you well under this limit.
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