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Information to help better understand taxes, from prefiling checklists to helpful filing information to what to do after filing and everything in between.

Tax Knowledge (Guides and FAQs)

Resources and common questions about what you need in order to file your taxes, including documents and information you'll need on hand.

Preparing to File

A quick checklist to make sure you have everything you need to prepare to file a tax return with april.

Pre-filing checklist: preparing to file

Dependents: Turning your support of another person(s) into a decrease in tax liability.

Guide to claiming dependents

Unlock savings by deducting student loan interest and lighten your tax burden!

Guide to student loans

Maximize your savings by leveraging your college expenses with education tax credits.

Saving with education tax credits

A guide to help small business owners and gig workers navigate their taxes.

Guide to self-employment

Guides and Resources

Why would I have to file a nonresident state return?

What is my state residency status?

Steps to locating prior year's tax return.

How can I find my prior year's tax return?

Why did I receive a Form 1099-G when I didn’t receive unemployment benefits; could it be identity theft?

What’s my prior year AGI if someone claimed me as a dependent?

What is AGI and Modified AGI?

How do I file if I moved to a different state last year?

What counts as health insurance on my tax return (and what are 1095-A/1095-B/1095-C forms)?

Changing the tax withholding on your paycheck can have a direct impact on your tax refund or balance.

Why would I change my paycheck withholding?

FAQs

Tax credits for your eligible dependents can unlock huge savings. Find out if you qualify!

Tax credits for eligible dependents

Child and Dependent Care Credit: A great way for parents and guardians to get relief on their tax burden!

Child and dependent care credit

Helpful guides and faqs about filing your taxes, covering topics like filing statuses, deductions, and credits.

Filing and General Tax Concepts

Guide To Capital Gains And Losses

Filing status: Determining your tax rates and eligibility for deductions and credits, based on your marital situation and family structure.

Guide to filing statuses

Earned Income Tax Credit: Lightening the tax burden for low and moderate-income workers.

Earned Income Tax Credit

If you need to file but the information reported on your W2 or 1099 forms, no worries! You can get transcripts from the IRS. This goes for your copies of…

Requesting forms & transcripts from the IRS

Navigate your tax journey with confidence using the right income tax forms for every source of earnings!

Guide to common income forms

IP and Self-Select PIN Guide

Answers to common questions surrounding itemized deductions

Standard vs Itemized deductions

Do I need to include child support on my federal taxes?

The IRS has a variety of methods for paying your estimated taxes.

How do I pay estimated taxes?

Estimated tax payments have quarterly due dates set by the IRS.

When are estimated tax payments due?

Understanding who has to pay estimated taxes.

Do I have to pay estimated taxes?

What is the difference between federal and state estimated taxes?

What is estimated tax/estimated tax payment?

Whether or not alimony payments are taxable or deductible depends on a few factors.

Are alimony payments taxable/deductible?

Is my Social Security income taxable?

Is an IRA deductible?

Are IRA or pension distributions taxable?

Common questions and answers about the child tax credit

What is the Child Tax Credit?

How do I report cryptocurrency when filling out a Form 1040?

A guide on how to find last year's tax return and your AGI

How do I find last year's Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)?

In order to upload a PDF in the april app, you will need to make sure they are not password protected.

Removing password from files

Contacting your state

Contacting the IRS

After Filing

If you owe the IRS, here’s a breakdown of your options for paying your balance.

Paying your balance due

Guide to amendments

Right now, April doesn’t handle filing extensions, but no worries, you can file one directly with the IRS!

Guide to extensions

All about your refund

A quick explanation for the IRS e-file reject code IND-507.

How do I fix the e-file reject code IND-507?

Steps you can take to rightfully claim a dependent that has been fraudulently taken on another's tax return

What can I do if someone has claimed my dependent as their own dependent?

Steps you can take when you submitted your return, only to find that someone else has filed a tax return for you already.

Why did I get an error message about a duplicate return?

E-file rejections are commonly related to incorrect or duplicated names, birth dates, AGI, or Social Security numbers.

Why did I receive an e-file rejection code?

What you need to know about filing state-only taxes after e-filing federal taxes with april