U.S. taxpayers preparing to file returns for 2025 — deadline April 15, 2026 — have one fewer free option this year. How Bay Area billionaires are trying to stop California’s wealth tax 14 charged in ...

Tax season is officially underway, and the Internal Revenue Service has begun accepting individual federal tax returns for 2026 through its free guided software program, IRS Free File. The IRS opened ...

For federal income tax purposes, your marital status is determined under state law as of the last day of the calendar year. That matters when choosing your filing status. Your filing status is one of ...

While taxes are inevitable for most Americans, the government doesn’t require those with sufficiently low incomes to file. However, choosing not to file usually means forfeiting profitable tax breaks ...

Tax season opened this year on January 26, 2026, and the IRS expects to process more than 164 million individual tax returns for the 2025 tax year. But not everyone is rushing to file, and not ...

Americans should take the next couple of weeks to get their tax documents in order if they want to be among the first to file their taxes (and get their refunds) when tax season opens on January 26, ...