Don’t miss any Filing Season Tax Tips

January 1, 2020

It’s that time of year again, tax season. Whether you’re working on your Form 1040 yourself or turning your annual tax-filing task over to a professional, you’ll want to check out all the Filing Season Tax Tips.

They are highlighted there at the top of the ol’ blog’s right column through the tax return filing deadline.

After their time in the spotlight, they then are archived on their own monthly tax tip pages. Normally, that would be the January through mid-April filing season.

In 2020, however, the coronavirus pandemic upended everything, including tax season. Tax Day was moved from April 15 to July 15. That means the Filing Season Tax Tips now cover January, February, March, April, May, June and — tah-dah! — July. Wow. That felt weird to type.

But things are weird in 2020, and not just here in Austin, Texas. In an effort to deal with this new bizarro world and keep some semblance of tax normalcy, you can always check out these monthly tax tip pages whenever the tax mood, or new 2020 Tax Day filing deadline, strikes.

And when the new extended filing season finally ends in mid-July, stick around. You can catch new tax tips on a weekly basis in this very same spot. These Weekly Tax Tips Tips, like these from 2019, will help if you got a filing extension (that’s still to Oct. 15) or are ready to do some planning for the next tax year.

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We made it. Tax Day 2025 is finally over. For most of us. When the filing season started on Jan. 26, millions who were expecting refunds filed immediately. Most of us got our returns to the Internal Revenue Service by April 15. But plenty of taxpayers also got extensions. They are looking at an Oct. 15 filing deadline.

Those procrastinating filers aren’t a problem. In fact, the IRS appreciates taxpayers who take time to fill out their 1040 forms correctly. It also is grateful that tax submissions are spread out a bit, especially now that the IRS is a leaner agency. Processing returns is easier when they arrive throughout the year instead of in massive bunches.

But enough about Uncle Sam’s tax collection issues. The focus now is on all y’all who filed for extensions, giving you another six months to complete your return. Since your new mid-October due date will be here before you know it, let’s get started now on meeting it.

The ol’ blog is here to help you finish up your extended Form 1040. You can start with January’s tax tips page, which has links to the rest of the year’s tips by-month collections. You also can peruse various tax categories for more tailored advice by clicking on the More Tax Posts drop-down menu at the top of this (and every) page.

And to make sure you don’t miss your new filing deadline, the count-down clock below will let you know just how much time you to file by Oct. 15. At the latest.e. (Note: I’m in the Central Time Zone, so adjust accordingly for where you live.)

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