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.

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Chy_TB

What I wish I knew about taxes when I first filed... more about college deductions/credits, taking advantage of 529 plans, AOTC, etc.

Gary9036

Wished I had known that you need to pay taxes on dividends you earned on taxable investments

mkkh2

I wish TurboTax was available when I started doing taxes. I found out about areas for deductions and credits that I didn't even know existed just by following the step-by-step instructions of TurboTax.

Laderrickiss

I wish I knew how easy and quick it was filing with turbo

Kjfrye20

I wish I knew more how the financial institutions worked in processing the return and then the refund monies and then where the refund monies would go. I wish we had a choice of where the refund money to go if we didn't have a bank who then the current product credit karma which is proven nothing to be but a fraudster and I can't get a hold of nobody in person over TurboTax or credit karma to fix it

meehly

I wish I had done the tax myself instead of using my parents' cheap tax professional. I didn't make sure at the time, basically low income and I could of add rent as a deduction. These cheap tax professional don't sit down with you to find possible deductions. They just take your W-2 and any documents you give them, and that's it. there's no discussion.

Dchamp69

I wish I knew you could add gas expenses for work, and claim all educational expenses. How Turbo Tax is fast and easy to use to file jointly!

wendy1214

I wish I had know that college textbooks were a deductible education expense

pnored

I wish I had known how easy using Turbotax is!

KouklaNB

I wish I would have known about the Fidelity discount before filing my prior years taxes. It's always great to save $ $. TurboTax always saves me money, by finding the most deductions. Thank you TurboTax. It's the best!