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TIPS:
Here are the things you need for filing your taxes
Some tax deductions you can claim:
More tips:
Should I Disclose my Cash Tips or all of my Income?
If you want to check the status your State refund just click here or go to ftb.ca.gov and click on check my refund link
TIPS:
Here are the things you need for filing your taxes
- W-2's
- 1099's
- 1098's
- Name, Birthday, Social Security number (yourself and your dependents)
- Receipts
Some tax deductions you can claim:
- Mileage (business or if required by your employer and you don't get reimburse you can claim this, you need to have written record)
- Medical Expenses (prescription, hospitalization, co-pays etc)
- Union Dues
- Phone Charges (business or if your employer requires you to have one and if you don't get reimburse you can claim this)
- Work Uniforms
- Tuition Fees
- Charity Contributions
- Daycare/Child care costs
More tips:
- You can claim anybody living with you at home as your dependent if you provided more that 50% of their support.
- You can claim your parents as your dependent even if they're not living with you if you provided more that 50% of their support.
- If you file as Married Filing Separately, you generally have to pay more taxes and also you cannot claim some of the the available credits to you as a couple like the earned income credit and education credit
- Also if you file Married Filing Separately if your spouse itemizes deductions, you cannot claim the standard deduction. If your spouse claim the standard deduction, your basic standard deduction is half the amount allowed on a joint return.
- You should file your tax even if you think you don't owe money to the IRS, you might get a refund.
- You could go back up to 3 years to amend your tax.
Should I Disclose my Cash Tips or all of my Income?
- Reporting more income from cash tips can be financially rewarding in a long run. Reporting additional cash tip income can actually mean higher benefits paid by Social Security Administration upon retirement, since benefit are based on lifetime reported earning.
- If a cash tipped employees ever become displaced from their job and make claim for unemployment compensation those benefits would be higher with cash tips being reported.