[PilotVertolet]

What part of "if even lawyers can't do it, then it's even less likely that "tax specialists" can do it, so it's not par for the course [in tax advice]" is "confusing" to you? Do I need to draw a Venn diagram or something?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_fortiori_argument

You complicated matters because then you started citing lawyer rules in this thread for some reason unknown to anyone but you. I'm not a lawyer so to me the implication may be that the tax advisor may have some kind of limited power of attorney or something to fill out the forms and therefore subject to the legal ethics as a lawyer would be as well.

You got on the wrong train track and just kept going.