<prompt> Human: Hey All - Recently filled out my taxes and this is the year that Im finally questioning the amount Im paying and am pretty fed up. Looking for a quick sanity check and want to know if it is worth it to finally speak to a financial adviser tax accountant of some kind to get some advice on setting up a bit of relief. I want to be pro-active and am beginning to think Im not managing my money as well as I could be.Im in my midlate 20s and make 85K base, and feel like I am just getting hammered on my taxes due to the fact that I have no children, house, etc. I feel like this scenario of responsible young professional gets it really badly come tax season and Im fed up enough to start planning for tricks and purchases to increase my deductions. Should I just become a dipshit and pump out some children like other morons I grew up with. Literally a large reason we are in no rush to get married is tax purposes, I mean what is this world.I claimed a 11 and ended up owing my state 2,000 extra on my taxes. Ive been essentially phased out of claiming my student loan interested debt and that was all I really had in terms of deductions aside from some extra 401 HSA investments. I suppose first thing I guess I need to change my State Filing status to be a 0, but even then I am pretty sure I will still owe my state money at the end of the year. My live-in gf has a similar situation except that she owns the house we live in, and she is getting a whopping total of around 3500K back between statefederal and that all seemed to have come from the house taxes.Am I in the point of my life where I should be speaking to somebody about how to better serve and protect my money? I should complete my student loans this year and have agreed to pay half of my parents remaining PLUS loans, but am close to being in a position to be able to invest into rentals, housing, larger focued investments, etc. I do work from home full time and its small things like that where I wonder if I can better be leveraging some tax laws aka move my office into a 100 separate space than my gaming and claim it have gf claim it her house idk, etc.I hope this isnt coming across as venting or whining, but it almost feels like Im doing something wrong here where I could claim a 0 and still owe my state 500-1K extra. I always use turbo tax but am wondering if having my taxes done by a professional would be worth it one time for a discussion and sanity check.Edit: Thanks All - I guess I definitely started to rant so my apologies for whining a bit ; - Thanks for the insights, I was planning to dump a bit more into my investments for the prior year to take some of the edge off so Ill do that. Other than that I guess this is just piece of mind that I havent been missing on some colossal deduction out of stupidity. My family was never great w money so I just kind of did taxes on my own years ago and never questioned the results, so this helps if anything for piece of mind.  <response>: If you feel this strongly and are making 85k you can at least afford to go to a tax specialist or accountant and see what they have to say. I know youre not being 100 serious but obviously, while having kids may reduce your taxes, they would cost much more for the rest of the year.I have no idea if this would be true, but it might be possible that owning property and then with combo of renting it out for more than the mortgage and the tax credits, you might be making money... just an idea. 