Filing & Forms
Avoid filing this way when you know additional tax forms are still coming.
What is filing too early?
Verify these identifying numbers for yourself and everyone claimed on the return.
What Social Security numbers?
Do not respond to suspicious tax-related texts, emails, or social-media messages because they may be this.
What is a phishing scam?
Include this wage statement even if you worked at the job only briefly.
What is a Form W-2?
Verify these two banking numbers before requesting direct deposit or electronic withdrawal.
What are the bank routing and account numbers?
Do not ignore this written communication from a federal or state tax agency.
What is an IRS or state tax notice?
Receiving more time to file generally does not give you more time to complete this obligation.
What is paying the tax due?
Use available support to get documents instead of doing this?
What is estimating or guessing?
When a tax agency sends a notice, review the details rather than automatically making this assumption.
What is assuming the notice is correct?