I'm not confident in my ability to get my taxes right (mostly due to my wife and I having owned small businesses plus my day job's stock awards and ESPP), so I've paid a local CPA to do our taxes for years now. He always did an incredible job, was happy to answer my questions for me (tax-related or not), helped us refi our house at an amazing price, and so on. His fees were something on the order of $400 or maybe even as high as $600 some years. But [a] I knew he always had our back, [b] his services partially or entirely paid for themselves in savings I probably wouldn't have caught, and [c] I was paying an individual who earned his keep as compared to a company like Intuit.