WASHINGTON
– The Internal Revenue Service is offering a daily series of Tax Tips for
the 2009 federal tax filing season that began this month.
Tax
Tips offer concise, useful information on topics affecting millions of taxpayers.
More than 70 tips on federal taxes will be available with a new one for each business
day until the April 15 tax filing deadline.
Tips are available
as easy-to-understand text as well as several audio files for podcast.
Sample
text-based Tax Tip topics include:
Choosing a tax preparer
Where you can get free tax help
How e-file can make filing easier and
getting you your refund faster
How to file for an extension or to amend your
return
What tax records to keep
First-Time Homebuyer Credit
Taxpayers
can receive new text-based Tax Tips via email when they are published by subscribing
through the e-News Subscriptions page on IRS.gov. When subscribing, the taxpayer
will receive a confirmation message by e-mail that he or she must respond to in
order to confirm the subscription. Other list serves available on IRS.gov include
Guidewire, which distributes IRS guidance, and Newswire, which distributes IRS
press releases.
