
The recommendation was “Fine, I guess.” Recurring brushes with amended returns certified a search for a new accountant. After fleeing the last one on the west coast, I filed one year on my own, but felt like I was setting myself up for a creative gray area red flag of incompetence: numbers are what they are, but there’s a stubborn anxiety about what defines a sole proprietor — inflected in allowances & artless appraisals of what loosely constitutes an expense — which, of course, are taken strictly personal. This new, local recommendation came from a calm, local artist & I wanted calm.
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