." >> quick: high up in arizona's white mountains, railroad supervisor shirley cornett finds out how far the irs will go to recoup their losses. for several years, she uses a local firm named accurate consulting to prepare her taxes. >> they've been around for 25 years, up here in our little small community, and been preparing taxes for that long. >> quick: accurate had been getting her about $4,000 a year in tax refunds. then, in 2008, the firm tells clients about special new tax-preparation methods that yield even larger refunds, with the company pocketing 10%. they tell cornett it is a well-kept secret normally reserved for a privileged few. >> it was the way senators, congressmen, you know, everybody in the government prepared their return, and so that's how they were gonna do it for us. >> quick: the new system yields cornett a refund 20 times greater than the previous year. >> me and my husband make around $200,000 a year. their refund for that year was $83,000. and it was astronomical compared to what we'd ever received before. >> quick: she questions her preparer about the am