How To Get Started Doing Your Tax Returns

How do I get started doing my taxes?

The first thing to do is to gather the information together. What information do I gather together, you ask? What I'm going to gather together is what I'm going to need to prepare my tax return. I need to know my income, from whatever source it may be. I need to know the expenses that I've incurred in earning that income. Some of them may not be deductible, and you may not know that until you sit down with the tax preparer or you sit down in front of your own computer or in front of the forms and still filling it out. But you want to gather everything together and have all the records in front of you before you pick up that pencil and start working.