alt Hacker NewsBasically nothing is going to happen to you if you make a best effort. So many people focus on getting it correct and pay hundreds or thousands to do so. I've filed my taxes incorrectly by accident for years and the IRS just sends me a correction and the new amount
I found myself in a weird corner of tax filing because I did equity crowdfunding (startup investing in amounts probably smaller than worth it.)
This results in a lot of K-1s, which tax preparers charge you like $500 a form for, except all of mine had values like $2.
Luckily you just kind of do it halfway right in TurboTax and it works out.