I do mine as soon as I have all my W-2s. It takes like 10 minutes. I don’t know why there is a trope about them being hard or confusing. They’re not, unless you’re trying to itemize everything.
Yeah. I’m self employed and some of my income comes from a contract with a religious nonprofit. My wife has three jobs and one of them is for a nonprofit. We have complicatons from certain expenses too, even though we don’t itemize we still end up with a number of extra forms to fill out.
We haven’t been in a hurry this year. It’s a pain and our kids are aging out of the tax credits. We usually feed and house four extra humans (three are ours) but only our 16 year old gives us a credit on last year’s taxes. We’re going to get a few hundred back but we just didn’t have urgency to file. We’re pretty much done, I think we’ll submit it tomorrow.
If you only have W-2s it is easy. But there are lots of other things that can make it a mess. If you have a business, do stock trading, use crypto, or itemize (less common now), then it can take a fair bit of time.
I do mine as soon as I have all my W-2s. It takes like 10 minutes. I don’t know why there is a trope about them being hard or confusing. They’re not, unless you’re trying to itemize everything.
Its hard cuz my parents run small bussiness and you got all those weird additional forms… Not as simple as just scan and file.
Also theres a thing where you have to file separately with the city.
Yeah. I’m self employed and some of my income comes from a contract with a religious nonprofit. My wife has three jobs and one of them is for a nonprofit. We have complicatons from certain expenses too, even though we don’t itemize we still end up with a number of extra forms to fill out.
We haven’t been in a hurry this year. It’s a pain and our kids are aging out of the tax credits. We usually feed and house four extra humans (three are ours) but only our 16 year old gives us a credit on last year’s taxes. We’re going to get a few hundred back but we just didn’t have urgency to file. We’re pretty much done, I think we’ll submit it tomorrow.
If you only have W-2s it is easy. But there are lots of other things that can make it a mess. If you have a business, do stock trading, use crypto, or itemize (less common now), then it can take a fair bit of time.
So not more complicated than in most European nations?
Here I have a pre filled form, check the numbers and done.