What’s the old saying? If you love something, throw it away and then reintroduce in another tax year? Or something like that? Just as the form 1040 appears to be making a return to a more ...

Still determined to inspire tax professionals to kick their copy machines, the first page of the form 1040 doesn’t fill the page. Instead, as last time, it takes up just 2/3 of the page. It just feels ...

A new tax form targets a specific audience. One of the biggest changes that taxpayers faced last year as a result of tax reform was a new 1040 tax form. The IRS eliminated the popular 1040-EZ and ...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 introduced a new tax form for seniors effective for 2019 taxes. Known as the 1040-SR, this form is designed to make filing taxes easier for older Americans. “Form ...

After the 2018 tax overhaul, the Treasury and the IRS released a “postcard” version of the individual income tax return. The agencies are now pitching a new draft of the Form 1040. They have also ...

As we try to finish up the 2018 tax return filing season, it might be of some comfort to think that 2019 tax returns will not involve too much new that we did not encounter in 2018. In general, that ...

The Internal Revenue Service has posted a draft version of a new tax return for senior citizens, as well as a new draft version of the Form 1040 for 2019 that taxpayers and practitioners will be ...

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The IRS has released the new-and-improved Form 1040 for your 2018 individual federal income tax return. The good news is the return is now postcard-sized if your tax situation is super-simple. The bad ...