It's finally time to start paying all those college-related expenses you've been saving for all these years. Be sure to take maximum advantage of the various tax breaks available to you for education expenses - they're free money too!

So, what if you just filed this year’s taxes and realize that you’ve made a mistake? And just to be safe you decide to go through past years’ taxes and realize you’ve made mistakes on some of them as well.

What’s the biggest single problem for taxpayers during filing season? Getting Internal Revenue Service staffers to pick up the phones and answer their questions. And what’s in store for taxpayers this year? Longer waits on the phone and less help, according to the latest annual report to Congress by the Taxpayer Advocate ...

Some capital gains booked by mutual funds turn into something different on the way to investors' pockets. And that may cost investors some pocket money.

Tax expert S. Kay Bell offers advice on how to handle your tax life when dealing with a divorce. These tips come straight from her new book The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes. Bell also runs her own blog Don't Mess with Taxes.

(Originally posted 2/28/2008). A few weeks ago we promised to review all of the free federal tax software that the Internal Revenue Service and 19 tax companies provide taxpayers who make $54,000 or less a year ($56,000 in 2008). True to our word, three FiLifers who qualified for the Free File service gathered together their tax ...

The level of tax-prep assistance you need will depend on the sophistication of your finances and investment returns.

It's that time of the year: Mutual-fund investors are paying taxes on dividends and capital gains, even if they never saw the cash and the payouts went straight toward the purchase of new shares. So is it time to swear off top-performing stock funds and s

Which tax-prep service you choose will depend on whether you want a person helping you one-on-one or easy-to-use software.

Questions to ask tax prep service providers.