I don’t use tax filing software myself so take this with a grain of salt, but I’d think the best answer is to use tax filing software (FreeTaxUSA, TurboTax, etc.). The income tax rules are simple, but coupled with a very very long list of exceptions, most of which don’t apply to you. If a book or website tried to list out the most useful exceptions, most of them would still be useless to you personally. Tax filing software uses a decision tree to figure out which exceptions are relevant.
Tax filing software is annoying to use so I wish I had a better answer, but AFAIK there isn’t one.
(If I don’t use tax filing software, how did I learn which exceptions I need to know about? I dunno, I just kinda learned them over time. But I also have a lot of blind spots.)
I don’t use tax filing software myself so take this with a grain of salt, but I’d think the best answer is to use tax filing software (FreeTaxUSA, TurboTax, etc.). The income tax rules are simple, but coupled with a very very long list of exceptions, most of which don’t apply to you. If a book or website tried to list out the most useful exceptions, most of them would still be useless to you personally. Tax filing software uses a decision tree to figure out which exceptions are relevant.
Tax filing software is annoying to use so I wish I had a better answer, but AFAIK there isn’t one.
(If I don’t use tax filing software, how did I learn which exceptions I need to know about? I dunno, I just kinda learned them over time. But I also have a lot of blind spots.)
Hmm, interesting. Perhaps then something like a literal decision tree of exceptions that one can walk down?
I’m also interested in the framing sorts of things that are done in the essays I listed — which I’d guess that software doesn’t do.