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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
So it's that time again.
Time to file your taxes.
If you're getting a refund, maybe you've already done that.
If not, maybe you're waiting until the very last minute.
Either way, the deadline to file and pay what you owe is April 15th.
I will say pretty much everybody I know dreads the filing part
because it involves paperwork and numbers,
but also because it's scary.
Most of us didn't learn how to do our taxes in school.
And so you may worry you're not doing it right and that you're going to get hauled off in handcuffs
because you forgot to report one of your 1099s. That isn't going to happen,
by the way.
So let's all take a big, deep breath together for this episode of Life kit.
We collected tax questions from listeners, and I posed them to two tax attorneys,
Hanna Borukov and Leo Gabovich, partners at the firm Boruchov Gabovich and Associates PC.
I asked them your questions
and added in some more in the hopes that we could make tax time a little easier for all of us.
All right, so let's start here.