I did mine earlier this week. Normally I do them in March, but time kinda got away from me this year. My parents still haven’t done theirs yet lol.

You can’t do them in January let alone New Year’s Day as most tax forms have until the end of January to be sent to taxpayers.

i set things up so I’m close to net zero, owe the state a tiny amount, tiny refund from the feis. There is no hurry, but I want them done late March just in case there is something weird I need to figure out (which has happened a couple times over the decades I’ve been eoing them.)

@DeathByBigSad I usually try and do them early. Not Jan 1, it’s near impossible to get your paperwork before mid-January, but usually it’s late January/early February. I did wait until April this year, though

Honestly really surprised to find everyone here all do their taxes so quickly. I also did all of mine as early as I could (mid-Feb) but…

The only few American friends whom I’m close enough to talk about this, they all ignore it until the very last minute. So either late March/April, or not at all

We did ours as soon as we had the documents, around mid Feb. Despite how incredibly awful everything is lately, there’s still child tax credits and daycare credits from smarter times. No reason to procrastinate that, especially as we can invest it in a long term fund for the kids.

Is the US tax year just… The year?

The UK tax year is the 6th-5th of April. I wonder how that happened…

(… Quarter days? And switching between the Julian and gregorian calendars apparently)

I remember growing up my parents would procrastinate and then crunch to get them done on 4/15. It seemed like they did this every damn year.

Me? I usually do end of February or maybe the beginning of March. Takes a bit to get all my documentation, so no point in dealing with it much before that.

For me, it depends if I’m getting a refund or not. If I’m getting a refund, usually by mid February after all my paperwork gets in. If I owe money, I’m waiting until April.

I just did mine yesterday, so I’m not much better than your parents. In my defense, my partner and I are self employed, and we really didn’t want to pay the government. Although through a lot of very creative but legal bookkeeping and paperwork, we managed to get what we owed in taxes down to $79.

If you’re wanting like my friend was, you’ll keep asking for extensions and missing deadlines until you’re assigned an auditor, at which point you’ll finally submit paperwork covering your two tax documents, and then complain that the IRS is being unreasonable.

Now, she just does things on time.

Right about now is when I start looking for the tax documents I need that are somewhere in the multiple stacks of unopened mail littering my office.

ADHD is fun.

Mine are simple, I do them as soon as I get a W2. Partner does then midnight day before due.

I usually do February or March.

I’m still fighting my old company for tax documents that are due in 4 days, and I don’t even live in the US