Category: Taxes
2025 Update: the below archived article is relevant to 2022 tax return filings for the Child Tax Credit in the 2021 tax year only. The 2023, 2024, and 2025 …
Update: most of the the provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (e.g. economic impact checks, unemployment benefit increase, expanded Child Tax Credit, and Earned Income Tax …
This overview of how to pay your taxes online (to the IRS) has been updated for the 2025 tax season. As tax season begins and you subsequently wrap up …
What is an IRS 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 …
Update: there was no tax extenders legislation passed for the 2024 tax year as of January 2025. Most of what was included in the prior tax extender legislation passed …
Update: the universal tax donation deduction has expired, as of the end of 2021. Fortunately, a new iteration of it is returning (and has been increased) as the “non-itemized …
Update: most of what is highlighted in this article has expired, but I will leave it up for historical reference. Additionally, a 2nd COVID relief bill was passed, H.R. …
This W-4 overview has been updated for the 2025 tax year. The only time that the IRS’s Form W-4 typically enters our stream of consciousness is when we reluctantly …
