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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Seansargent77

How much money that I could make without going into a expensive tax bracket..

saledigital

Good

Vvhimzical

I wish I knew to keep track of the many deductibles I have as well as receipts for everything.

Buck64

I wish I knew my tax payer I'd number it want let me e-file without it

robo660

To anyone who is worried about there refund like I have been by getting the (we are sorry but your refund is delayed beyond normal time frame ) I can shine a lil light on ya situation now finally !! I have a refund date set to hit my bank account on the 16th of March hope this eases some of ya'llz worries a lil bit ...also I wish I had known how freaking easy it was to file my taxes myself through turbo tax !! Thank you turbo tax for being there through it all I really appreciate it more than. You know sincerely yours Robert Miller

Bre0304

I wish I would of known to keep all my records together before filing, having to stop and go look for something got frustrating. Thanks to TT, you all make it easy

Brianna Miller

ruselman29

First off this was my first year using Turbo Tax and I wish that I would have been using Turbo Tax all along opposed to spending $700 to file my return with services like H&R block and Liberty Tax. The whole process was pretty easy But aside from that I wish that I would have known more about the process of filing taxes as a whole. For whatever reason it wasn't taught in school and it really should have been because I started filing at 16 with my husband and neither one of us knew anything about anything.

wamesd

I wish I had known about saving all of my receipts through the year, as many of them would have been deductions on my tax return!!!

lowmana87

I wish I had known to not let my parents claim me as a dependent when I began working while still In highschool and providing for myself! Whoops!

Demarius Taylor

I wish I would have known how to get a advance refund and knew how to talk to a representative and see how much I would have got back for my taxes and paid all that money for the assistance and thought I was gonna get more on my refund but the state had took most of my money but I know next year what to do but I already paid for the whole year so might as well use it **bleep** I wish I would have known at first but I made a mistake for this is my first time filing taxes but I'll know the 2nd go round believe that imma do my research promise you that