Category: Taxes

As you wrap up on filing your tax return this year, the next step is obviously to pay any amount that is due (hopefully you owe IRS taxes, as …

What is an Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN)? The start of tax season has arrived, and I wanted to share a PSA for readers that the IRS is now …

This 2022 Child Tax Credit article has been updated for the 2022 tax year. There were some notable pandemic-related changes to the Child Tax Credit in the 2021 tax …

Update: there has not been tax extenders legislation passed for 2022. Much of what was in the 2020 legislation passed by Congress was through the end of 2021. I …

Update: the following article is relevant for 2022 tax returns (2021 tax year donations). It’s now too late to make charitable donations for 2021. We still have not seen …

Update to below: The 2021 tax deadline (for 2020 tax filing) was extended to May 17  from the standard tax deadline of April 15, 2021. The 2022 tax deadline …

Update: some of what is detailed below continues on, but as of late December, a 2nd COVID relief bill was passed, H.R. 133, which authorized new $600/person stimulus checks, …

The only time that the IRS’s Form W-4 typically enters our stream of consciousness is when we reluctantly have to fill it out on the first day of a …