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

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djtroxell

With TurboTax, there is an easy interface and process to start next year's taxes where I ended the previous year. The software also remembers my pin to help me eFile with the federal government.

Toshammmm

I wish I had known how EASY☺️☺️ it is to do my taxes myself on TurboTax! 🤗I am so disappointed that before I knew about TurboTax how much money I could of saved by not having to pay to have my taxes done for me by places like HnR block and so on. TurboTax made me confident in myself that yes, I am smart enough to do this without anyone's help because they help every step of the way!! I love that they have an option to explain in more detail on questions you don't understand and just the little things like that that makes a BIG DIFFERENCE. 👍 It's easy, quick, and free. Thanks TurboTax for helping me be more independent. I also wish I knew about all the great benefits of filing online through TurboTax like my CK money spend card. I absolutely love my Credit Karma account which I would of never knew about if it wasn't for TurboTax intuit. It also has been a HUGE BLESSING that has helped me with so many things that deals with life essentials we need like auto insurance,building credit, buying a car,and much more. I'll continue to use them for the rest of my tax filing years ahead. Lol

jessnsophia

I wish I would have known that I could do my own taxes. I didn’t know about turbo tax or how to file as self employed. I wish I would have know the definitions and requirements of each status too. I didn’t know anything and I wish I would’ve known to ask someone knowledgeable to explain it to me then but life is for learning after all.

loyal2me1989

The 1st time I filed taxes with Turbo Tax I wish I would have known that I could get a refund increase even if I had more than 2 dependents. For years Fast Tax and Jackson Hewitt told me that and I opted to allow my kids father to claim the other 2 kids. I thank God often for bringing me to Turbo Tax and allowing me to see for myself that, if you read to understand then you can do any and everything. When you can read an write then no human could harm nor humiliate you. Knowledge is the key to Success.

Avrilprezley

I wish I would have known that I would have never been audited from 2012 for past tax obligation only because my daughters dad claimed her the same time when I got school records and etc to prove that and the irs now says it's to late to send in the proof for second time and I'm responsible for paying th14000 dollars and I only got 5000 in 2012 so now that times are very hard on every one I got my child tax credit taken away from me and they will not except no exception says the lady I talked to from irs and not to mention how she was rude to me and hung up in my face

Sugabay90

I wish I knew how to understand some of the credit and deductions a little better. It really was confusing but I'm now on my 5 year with turbo tax and I've been doing very well and I am very happy customer

Poyeewole21

I wish I had first hand information on gifts and charity record keeping for tax filing purpose. I did most of my charity with cash and no proper records.