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Darn. I was thinking along the same lines as your response, but hoping there was an easy answer. I'll definitely do more research into FL's tax laws, but I appreciate your willingness to lend your opinion. [Startup idea: state and federal laws translated into understandable language...a Wikipedia of laws. Probably not the best idea since I'm sure that would result in quite a few law suits do to someone following incorrect or incomplete information]

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No problem, that idea actually has 4 major multibillion dollar companies competing right now. Lexis/Nexus, Westlaw, RIA Checkpoint and CCH basically TRY to do this but honestly there's no way to make these laws easy.

I'm a professional that uses these legal research tools and I cant even rely on them. I have to basically do all the work because their conclusions are not reliable when ur client is audited.

Tax, law and etc are just weird areas where you cant automate it on a level higher than turbotax. I think it'll always require a person on the other end to do it just cause its such a labor intensive field that is never the same result on a consistent basis.

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