I have always done my own taxes. Been in daycare for 25 years. Once you get the hang of keeping the receipts it is just a case of adding them up. It sounds a lot more complicated then it is and years ago it was actually worse as we had to separate out everything. Now we tend to separate out stuff just for our own info and then when we go to do our taxes, the form lumps it all together under supplies (food, household stuff like paper towels, cleaners, craft supplies, toys) which is basically everything we buy for our daycare except our office supplies - paper, pens, laminating.