Tax Deductions and Credits

Maximize your tax refund by learning about the different tax deductions and credits that you may be able to qualify for.

An Education in Student Savings – 10 Common Tax Deduc…

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What is the Saver’s Credit (411 x 600 px)

What is the Saver’s Credit?

Tax Tips for Second-Home Owners

Do Babysitters Have To Report Their Income on Taxes?

Can I Write Off My Grandparent as a Dependent?

6 Ways to Reduce Your Taxable Income (411 x 600 px)

6 Ways to Reduce Your Taxable Income

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What Are the Standard Mileage Rates?

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Are You a PTA Parent? That Volunteering May Just Pay Of…

Tax Write-Offs for Athletes (411 × 600 px)

Tax Write-Offs for Athletes

Exploring the Tax Implications of Ozempic and Wegovy What You Should Consider (411 × 600 px)

The Tax Implications of Ozempic and Wegovy

What is a Tax Write-Off (Tax Deductions Explained) (411 × 600 px)

What is a Tax Write-Off?

Writing Off Your Summer Preparing For Next Tax Season (411 × 600 px)

Writing Off Your Summer: Preparing For Next Tax Season

How Builders of Energy Efficient Homes Are Rewarded with Expanded Credit (411 × 600 px)

How Builders of Energy-Efficient Homes Are Rewarded wit…

Education Tax Credit: Back-to-School Tax Savings & …

How to Get a Tax Break for Summer Child Care (411 × 600 px)

How to Get a Tax Break for Summer Child Care

Back-to-School Savings Five Tax Tips for Teachers (411 × 600 px)

Four Tax Tips for Teachers

Going Back to School After 40 Know The Tax Benefits (411 × 600 px)

Going Back to School After 40: Know The Tax Benefits

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Energy Efficient Improvements to Save Money at Tax-Time

Back to School Series Money Lessons for College Freshmen (411 × 600 px)

Money Lessons for College Freshmen

How Does Your Vacation Home Affect Your Taxes (411 × 600 px)

How Does Your Vacation Home Affect Your Taxes?

How the Tax-Free Weekend Can Boost Your Back-to-School Savings (411 × 600 px)

How to Boost Your Back-to-School Savings

Your Summer Travel Can Save You at Tax Time (411 × 600 px)

Your Summer Travel Can Save You at Tax Time

Can I Get a Student Loan Tax Deduction (411 × 600 px)

Can I Get a Student Loan Tax Deduction?

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Summer Home Improvement Projects That Pay You Back

How to Avoid Self-Employment Tax & Ways to Reduce It (411 × 600 px)

How to Avoid Self-Employment Tax & Ways to Reduce …

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Taxes 101 The Gift Tax (411 × 600 px)

Taxes 101: The Gift Tax

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Where’s My Amended Return? How To Check the Statu…

International Student Tax (File for F-1 Tax Returns) (411 × 600 px)

International Student Tax (File for F-1 Tax Returns)

Love and Marriage Some Tax Benefits of Marriage (411 × 600 px)

Love and Taxes: Tax Benefits of Marriage

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Here’s Tax Deductions And Credits You Can’t…

Are Overnight Camps Tax Deductible?

Are Overnight Camps Tax Deductible?

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Your Guide to Filing Taxes as the Head of Household

What Medical Expenses are Tax Deductible (411 × 600 px)

What Medical Expenses are Tax Deductible?

Can I Make Spousal IRA Contributions for Retirement (411 × 600 px)

Can I Make Spousal IRA Contributions for Retirement?

Life Events Series: How Will Buying My First House Help My Taxes?

Life Events Series: How Will Buying My First House Help…

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TurboTax Helps College Students, Including Student-Athl…

Buy or Lease Your New Business Vehicle?

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Can You Deduct 401K Savings From Your Taxes?

Your Top Tax Questions About Working Remotely, Answered

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Podcast: Are Home Improvements Tax Deductible?

What is a Refundable Tax Credit

What is a Refundable Tax Credit?

All The Single Ladies…Put Your Tax Deductions Up!

Can I Claim My Girlfriend or Boyfriend as a Dependent?

3 Reasons It’s Great to Be Coupled Up at Tax Time (411 × 600 px)

3 Reasons It’s Great to Be Coupled Up at Tax Time

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Podcast: Tax Tips to Help You With Student Debt

Can I Claim My Parents as Dependents?

Can I Take a Tax Deduction for a Bad Investment?

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Tax Audits Explained (Not As Scary As You Think) (411 × 600 px)

Tax Audits Explained (Not As Scary As You Think)

Can You Buy a House If You Owe Taxes?

10 Commonly Overlooked Tax Deductions (411 x 600)

10 Commonly Overlooked Tax Deductions and Credits

Who Can I Claim as a Dependent (411 x 600 px)

Who Can I Claim as a Tax Dependent?

Tax Benefits for Having Dependents

Tax Benefits for Having Dependents

Holiday Gift Giving and Tax Deductions for Business Gif…

Charitable Giving and Your Taxes

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Standard vs Itemized Deduction Calculator

Holiday Donations and Tax Savings

12 Ways to Save on Taxes Through Life’s Transitions (411 × 600 px)

12 Ways to Save on Taxes Through Life’s Transitions

What’s the Difference Between a Tax Credit and a Tax Deduction (411 × 600 px)

What’s the Difference Between a Tax Credit and a …

Capital Gains Tax Explained (What Is It and How Much It Is) (411 × 600 px)

Capital Gains Tax Explained (What Is It and How Much It…

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Donations and Tax Deductions (411 × 600 px)

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Donations and Tax Deduct…

Student Loan Debt Relief Announced Here’s What it Means For You (411 × 600 px)

Student Loan Debt Relief Announced:  Here’s What it …

5 Tax Breaks for Teachers on World Teachers’ Day (411 × 600 px)

5 Tax Breaks for Teachers on World Teachers’ Day

Innocent Spouse Relief What It Is and Do You Qualify (300 × 534 px)

Innocent Spouse Relief: What It Is and Do You Qualify?

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Can You Claim Your Elderly Parents on Your Taxes?

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 What it Could Mean for You and Your Taxes(411 × 600 px)

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

Donate Your Wedding Dress for a Tax Deduction

Donate Your Wedding Dress for a Tax Deduction

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How Changes in Your Life Can Save You Money (411 × 600 px)

How Changes in Your Life Can Save You Money

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Divorce & Taxes 101: Filing Taxes After a Divorce

Can I Claim My Parent as a Dependent

Can I Claim My Parent as a Dependent?

What is the Expanded Child and Dependent Care Credit

What is the Expanded Child and Dependent Care Credit?

Multigenerational Families (411 × 600 px)

Multigenerational Families: Top Family Tax Deductions a…

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Who Should Opt Out of the Monthly Child Tax Credit Paym…

When Will the 2021 Child Tax Credit Payments Start Under Stimulus Relief (411 × 600 px)

When Will the 2021 Child Tax Credit Payments Start Unde…

Are Medical Expenses Tax Deductible?

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Is PPE like Face Masks and Hand Sanitizer Tax Deductibl…

Learn what a recovery rebate tax credit is

What is a Recovery Rebate Tax Credit?

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Charity Tax Deductions (What Counts as a Contribution?)

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Are Political Contributions or Donations Tax Deductible…

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4 Tax Benefits If You’re Taking Care of Children …

Tax Implications of Having a Nanny or Housekeeper (411 × 600 px)

The Tax Implications of Having a Nanny or Housekeeper

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7 Crazy Things People Have Deducted

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Can You Claim Your Dog On Your Taxes? (Pet Deductions 1…

Unknown Tax Deductions for Bloggers

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