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From his biography ("The Snowball"):

"He did the bookkeeping himself and prepared his own tax returns. With its numbers, accuracy, and the measuring of results, the recordkeeping aspect of the job pleased him."

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"Warren was still handling all the money and doing all the clerical work himself: filing the tax returns,..."

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"'Bill started trying to convince me to get a computer. I said, I don’t know what it’s going to do for me. I don’t care how my stock portfolio is doing every five minutes. And I can do my income taxes in my head.'"

Seems like indeed he is doing them himself (his personal tax bill; to do it for Berkshire, they surely have hired help)



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