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👻 🕷️ 🎃 🕸️ 👻 Spooky October is here! 👻 🕷️ 🎃 🕸️ 👻
But fear not! This month’s tax tips should help ease your tax terrors. Some could even provide you with the best treat of all: A smaller tax bill!
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Sure, Oct. 31 officially is the scariest day, as ghosts and goblins — OK, youngsters in costumes and their sometime sillier-attired parents — take over neighborhoods.
But for taxpayers who couldn’t finish their 1040 forms by the regular April 15 Tax Day, the most terrifying October day is the 15th. That’s the due date for filers who got an automatic six-month extension so they could accurately complete their tax returns.
Now those months are almost over, vanishing like the spectral entities that mysteriously appear and disappear this month.
And when the fast-approaching Oct. 15 is done, it is like a staked vampire, gone for good. The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t offer any more grace periods, unless you’re in a major disaster area, and no one wants to be in that terrifying situation.
This month’s tips (as well as the ones posted January through September; links below) will help tax-filing procrastinators finish their 1040 forms. And those who made the mistake of not sending in any (or enough) owed tax when they filed for the extension will find suggestions on how to pay that amount.
As for all y’all efficient filers who are done with the annual filing obligation but dropped by anyway, stick around.
I don’t have Halloween candy yet, but since October marks the start of the tax year’s final quarter, it’s a good time to make moves that can help reduce this year’s already accruing tax liability. You’ll find some ideas on how to do that, as well as plenty of other tax tasks in this October tax tips collection.
So, if you’re ready to tackle taxes, whether it’s your 2025 filing or 2026 and beyond planning, grab your pumpkin-spiced beverage and read on for some not-too-scary tax tips.
- Tax initiatives on Nov. 3 ballots — In addition to selecting new or re-electing current state and federal lawmakers on Nov. 3, voters across the United States will see some policy questions on their ballots. Some of them will affect their state and local taxes. (Sept. 29, 2026)
And yes, as I’ve been doing much of this year, I’m kick-starting this new tax tips page with a previous one that still applies to the current month. In this case, it’s the overview of tax-related ballot initiatives that voters in several states will see when they go to the polls. Some civic minded folks will wait until Nov. 3 to vote, but others will take advantage of their areas’ early voting time periods. Either way, October’s first (and September’s last) tax tip can help these voters make decisions. - Filing your extended Form 1040 and four more October tax moves — October traditionally is the scariest month, and not just because of Halloween. Millions of tax procrastinators are quaking as the Oct. 15 extended filing deadline nears. But there’s no need to be afraid of that or other tax matters. You can begin spooky October by taking care of some tax tasks that could help ease your tax fears. And they might even provide you the best holiday treat: a smaller tax bill. (Oct. 1, 2026)
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I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that you want to spend part of your Autumn checking out more tax tips. Rest assured that as the chillier months arrive, all the pages listed and linked below will be filled with timely tax information.
And yes, you can go ahead and click on the yet-to-come November and December links. Those tax tips pages are live in the sense that, like this October page, the links will open instead of going to my 404 page. You just won’t find any tax tips on them yet because, well, they haven’t arrived.
Instead, you’ll find an enthusiastic fellow telling you to whoa up! (Although he’s not wearing a Stetson, imagine the Texas twang associated with that phrase. 😉)
But rest assured that once the calendar page flips to Nov. 1 (and later), the months’ associated tax tips pages will start filling up with information to help all us taxpayers wind down 2026. That will include ways to cut this year’s tax bills, as well as prepare for the 2027 filing season.
Until then, enjoy the January through September tax tips pages. And again, I appreciate your wanting more tax tips, and your patience on waiting for them to be posted.
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