Win $100! What do you wish you'd known the 1st time you filed taxes?

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February 8, 2022
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Thank you so much to everyone that participated! It was so great to hear about all of your experiences. A winner was randomly selected and has been contacted to claim their prize.

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Hello community members!

For first-time visitors, welcome to the TurboTax + Mint Community. For returning members, welcome back! We’re so glad to "see" you again!

As we gain life experience, our perspective on finances and taxes changes. We spend a lot of our young adult life trying to get this thing called taxes right. Sometimes life throws us curveballs, and finances can get a little hectic. Eventually, we realize it’s not the end of the world. As we learn more about managing finances, it gets easier to handle the challenges.

Now that you’re a tax filing "pro," what is something that you wish you would have known the first time you filed your taxes? For this month's sweepstakes, we are going to focus on tips that you wish you knew before starting your tax journey.

Sharing your opinions with our community could earn you a gift card to help you achieve your financial goals. To enter simply reply to this thread with your most helpful tax filing tips. On March 16th, 2022, a winner will be selected from this thread at random.

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We will be hosting the What You Wish You Knew About Taxes 2022 Sweepstakes to give you, and others, the opportunity to share your tips. One lucky winner will be chosen at random to receive a $100 gift card.

WHAT: Sweepstakes for a $100 gift card
WHEN: Entries will be accepted from March 1st, 2022 through March 16th, 2022 at 12:00pm Pacific Time
HOW: Enter by adding a comment to this post telling us what you wish you knew about taxes when you first filed. If you are the winner, we will send you a private message. The winner will be selected at random on March 16th, 2022.

Refer to the attached document for the complete rules.

Sweepstakes---Rules---March-2022.pdf

Community Chatter

NWPESSIMIST

I wish i had known all of the different deductibles that you should be keeping track of throughout the year. Any purchases that were used for work aswell as gas purchased for miles traveled commuting to and from work.

A_flash

I wish I would've know how FAST and EASY it was to use the online or app that Turbo Tax offers to e-file taxes for free, the very first time I prepared my taxes myself. Turbo Tax saves a lot of headaches and avoidable errors in the filing process.

Fera

I wish I would have known that I shouldn't read to much into the questions that are asked. The questions are much easier to answer if you do not look too deep. Stay focused and organized. Remember to breath. This is so easy just take o it one question at a time and if you nugget to look something up don't panic you can close out and then start right back where you left off. You got this

ANCIENT BILL

When I first filed in 1958 when I was 17 years old, I wish there was TurboTax so i didn't have to pay my parents CPA for doing a return for me.

deesmith304

How I manage to mix up free, get a $1505 return, pay to have it done ($184) then only get $1280.

robo660

Im just glad that you guys have my back at turbo tax that is a weight lifted that was always heavy also I wish I had known that you all are dedicated to help ppl like me that' goes a whole lot further than any those assholes at (H&R Block) they told me one year that it would cost me more to file my taxes than what I would be getting back !! I thought okay and they where so rude to me I didn't know what to say so I went to another tax filer and got back way more than I thought I would have after H&R Block told me It would cost me more to file than what I'd get back what a bunch of snobby assholes

TraeCormier

The first time I filed my taxes, I WISH I would have known that it would have been MUCH easier filing through TurboTax, as opposed to doing taxes "on my own". TurboTax really makes you feel like someone has your back.

Killasha6583

I wish that I knew, that I could have had, a live tax expert to help me.

harshaint

I wish it was clear how to file taxes if I moved here from another country mid-year

Laurenmefford

I wished I known about how things worked better. Wasn't all forsure what some of it actually meant. Had to do a little research to understand the deductions etc.