I just had my taxes done and this was my first Full year of doing daycare. I got a couple of hundred back. I have an accountant do it. You can find all sorts of people who do taxes out of their home. Check with some other daycares in your area to see if they have anyone they use. I've heard that H and R block is not good for small business. They charge too much and they don't always write everything off that you can. I don't know that from experiance, but I've heard. I have a private girl do mine for 75 bucks. $300.00 at HandR sounds like a lot to me.

Prior to my daycare days I always had H&R block do my personal taxes and they always did a great job.

Everyones situation is different. I get different write offs because of my relationship status, my kids age, fitness tax credits, charitable donations, RRSP contributions etc.

Re do them with all of your write offs. I give my accountant all of my house hold bills including insurance I pay on the house. ( I have an extra rider because I own a home bases business )

$4000 can't be right. Don't get discouraged.