Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- Computer with a modem or Internet access
- A copy of last year's tax return
- Personal identification (driver's license, Social Security card) for you and your spouse, if applicable, showing the SSN(s)
- The Social Security cards of your dependents, if applicable
- W-2s from all of your employers
- Forms 1099-INT showing interest paid to you throughout the year.
- Form 1099-G showing any refund, credit or offset of state and local taxes.
- All receipts pertaining to your small business
- Forms 1099-DIV, 1099-R
- Income receipts from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporation, trusts
- Unemployment Compensation
- Social Security benefits
- Other Income Itemized Deductions (Schedule A)
- Medical and Dental expenses
- Receipts from taxes you paid such as state and local taxes, real estate taxes, personal property taxes.
- Form 1098
- for home mortgage interest and points
- Receipts for charitable contributions and gifts
- Casualty and theft losses
- Job expenses
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Step 1
File Early. Even if it is no longer "early"--- get started by collecting your records and set aside the time to file without further delay.
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Step 2
Go to the U.S. Internal Revenue Site
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Step 3
Look to the left of the site, under Resources, choose efile.
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Step 4
Proceed through the program following the prompts.
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Step 5
The very fastest way to receive your refund is through DIRECT DEPOSIT. Choose that option. You can even designated that it go to more than one account.
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Step 6
You have successfully filed your income tax to the IRS. Congratulations!complete steps and when you have finished. File. Wait for confirmation that your return has been sent.
