{"id":646059,"date":"2010-01-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/free_tax_filing"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:51:02","slug":"free-tax-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646059","title":{"rendered":"Free Tax Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"taxes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/taxes10.jpg?w=780\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>I got my W2 in the mail the other day, which meant only one thing: A quick phone call to my mom the accountant to ask her to help me with my <a title=\"tax information\" href=\"http:\/\/usasearch.gov\/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov-web&amp;query=taxes&amp;USA.gov+Search=Search\">taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But mom, being the smart person that she is, decided I should probably try to do my taxes myself, so she told me about <a title=\"Free filing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/freefile\">www.irs.gov\/freefile<\/a>, a website that helps people file their taxes for free if they meet certain income requirements.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a little quiz that asks you some questions such as age, estimated gross annual income, whether or not you&#8217;re married, and then it suggests a list of possible free software tools that will help you fill out your federal <a title=\"tax forms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/individuals\/article\/0,,id=118506,00.html)\">taxes forms<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For someone like me, fairly new to the work world and a complete newbie at <a title=\"filing taxes\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6987&amp;p_created=1136386204&amp;p_sid=B*rMm2Tj&amp;p_accessibility=0&amp;p_redirect=&amp;p_lva=&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzIwLDcyMCZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PTIwMDkgdGF4IHJldHVybnM*&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1\">filing taxes<\/a>, an option like this is really helpful. <\/p>\n<p>For more information about filing your taxes, including information on the <a title=\"Haiti donation rules\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/article\/0,,id=218645,00.html?portlet=7\">new rules <\/a>that will let you claim Haiti donations on your 2009 returns, you can check the <a title=\"IRs.gov\" href=\"http:\/\/irs.gov\">IRS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>How do you prepare your taxes? Do you use a software program, an accountant, or file by hand?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my W2 in the mail the other day, which meant only one thing: A quick phone call to my mom the accountant to ask her to help me with my taxes. But mom, being the smart person that she is, decided I should probably try to do my taxes myself, so she told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2I4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}