Tax Center

Tax Center

Filing deadlines, brackets, retention windows, and the home office tests, sourced to IRS.gov and labeled with the tax year they actually apply to.

March 16 is the partnership and S-corp deadline. Three years is the standard record retention period. The 2025 standard deduction is $15,750 for a single filer. None of those answers change based on who is asking, so they live here instead of in the same email I write every February.

Four reference pages: due dates, rates, retention, and tips. No login, no form, and no email address traded for a PDF.

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What's on each page

The due dates page holds the 2026 calendar. Individual returns and payment, April 15. Partnerships and S-corps, March 16. C-corps, April 15. Estimated payments April 15, June 15, September 15, and January 15, 2027. It also states the thing people get wrong most often: Form 4868 buys you until October 15 to file, and nothing at all on the payment. Interest runs from April 15 either way.

The rates page lists the 2025 brackets and standard deduction with the income where each rate actually starts. The 37 percent rate begins above $626,350 for a single filer and $751,600 for a married couple filing jointly, which is considerably further up the scale than most people assume when they name their bracket. It is also a marginal rate. It applies to the dollars above the threshold, not to the whole return.

Record retention covers how long to keep what, per IRS Topic 305. Three years is standard. Six years if income was understated by more than 25 percent. Seven for a worthless security or bad debt deduction, four for employment tax records, and indefinitely if the return was fraudulent or never filed, because in those two cases the clock the three-year rule depends on never starts running.

Tax tips is the practical page: the exclusive and regular use test for a home office, the simplified method at $5 per square foot capped at 300 square feet, and why a W-2 employee generally cannot claim the deduction at all now that the TCJA has suspended unreimbursed employee business expenses. Longer pieces that walk through an entire decision instead of stating a number sit in insights.

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Where the numbers come from

All of it traces back to IRS.gov, and each page names its source where a specific one applies. Retention follows IRS Topic 305. The brackets and standard deduction are the inflation adjustments for the 2026 tax year, filed in 2026.

These figures change annually. Brackets and deduction amounts are adjusted for inflation every year, and deadlines shift when the 15th lands on a weekend or a holiday. Treat the tax year label as part of the number. If the year on the page does not match the return in front of you, it is the wrong number, and that is true of any tax reference page on the internet including this one.

For refund status, go to Where's My Refund on IRS.gov. It is the only place with your actual data. A mirrored status page here would just be a stale one.

Plenty of this you can act on without hiring anyone. If you have one W-2 and take the standard deduction, look up the rate, file the return, keep the records three years, and get on with your life. The free consultation is for when the question stops being a lookup and becomes a judgment call.

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