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Although the IRS code is complicated and thorny, there are plenty of legitimate ways to reduce your tax bill. Before you sit down to attack your taxes, grab last year’s return as a reference and then review your W-2s, 1099s, charitable contribution receipts. Additionally, your credit card and bank statements may be useful to jog your memory for unreimbursed business or medical expenses. Then, consider these six concepts:
Tax preparation season opened on January 23 and once again, due to a Washington DC holiday, the tax -filing deadline is April 18th, rather than April 15th, so procrastinators will have an extra three days to dawdle. For early bird filers, there is also good news: under provisions of the 2015 Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act, employers are now required to file their copies of Form W-2 and certain 1099-MISC for independent contractors to the Social Security Administration, by January 31.
