If you sold used clothing and toys for less than you paid for it, you would have realized a nondeductible personal loss. You would not report the sales, and you wouldn't claim a loss. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect you to produce purchase receipts for these items, but if you sold a significant amount of these items, you should retain a list of what you sold, what you sold it for, and an estimate of the original purchase prices/ages of the items in the off chance that these transactions were ever questioned. As an aside, your cost basis of items received by gift (from your relatives) is actually what the item cost the giver. ... View more

First he should try to get a copy of the return from the preparer. You can get a copy of a transcript showing most of the important tax return information by using the  Get Transcript tool at IRS.gov. Finally, if he must have an actual copy of the tax return, the fee per copy is $50. Complete and mail Form 4506 to request a copy of the tax return.  ... View more

  Yes, mortgage interest is still deductible if you took out a mortgage to purchase your home (home acquisition debt). Your HELOC interest may be deductible to the extent that you used the funds to make improvements to your property. If you used the funds for any other purpose, the interest is not deductible.   However, your mortgage interest deduction can be limited. Beginning in 2018, taxpayers may only deduct interest on $750,000 of qualified residence loans. That includes both your regular mortgage and your HELOC.   You might not be seeing an increase in your refund because the Standard Deduction has been increased this year ($24,000 for Joint returns, $12,000 for Single, and $18,000 for Head of Household) which means that many taxpayers will no longer be able to itemize deductions, and will take the Standard Deduction instead.      ... View more

Unfortunately, the only tax benefit you can get from paying child support is if you have an arrangement with the custodial parent to allow you to claim the child as a dependent for the Child Tax Credit. It does not count as child care, and you can't write it off as an expense. I'm not familiar enough with the rules concerning credit reports to give you any valuable information on that. ... View more

You can e-file if this is your first tax return. When you are asked for last year's AGI, just enter zero (-0-). ... View more

You can't do that. The IRS has a limit of 5 e-filed returns unless you are a professional tax preparer, and it doesn't matter how many new copies of the software you install, you will not be permitted to e-file more than 5. To prepare more than five e-files, you will need to become an Authorized e-file Provider and register as an ERO (Electronic Returns Originator) with the IRS.http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/e-File-Providers-&-Partners/Become-an-Authorized-e-file-Provider     Intuit has 2 products for tax preparers:       ProSeries    http://proseries.intuit.com/       Lacerte    http://lacerte.intuit.com/index.jsp   However, you can prepare, print and mail as many tax returns as you wish. ... View more

Yes, you can wait to file the Homestead Property Tax Refund Form.  The M1PR is filed separately from your Minnesota Tax Return. It is due by August 15, 2016.  Print out and mail Form M1PR with all applicable worksheets and the CRP form to: Minnesota Property Tax Refund St Paul, MN 55145-0020 ... View more

If you are still working for this company, at least retain the records of your current earnings and tips. There isn't anything we can do to fix this situation, but I do hope you are able to move to a better position soon. ... View more

This is a very serious problem and one that is beyond anything we can do for you here. If your employer has been falsifying your payroll records, it's a legal matter and you should obtain legal advice in your local area. Do you mean that you never received paystubs from this company that reflected your hourly wage and your reported tips? And your W-2 shows no federal withholding? If there was withholding that should have been remitted to the IRS from your hourly wages, and your employer didn't do that, you need to understand that it's your money that the company kept for themselves. Just because your paycheck would be zero doesn't mean that that money isn't yours, and shouldn't be credited to your federal and state withholding and Social Security.  Again, this is a legal matter. The IRS will base your tax liability on the W-2 that they receive unless they have information to the contrary. You can consider reporting this situation to the IRS. Any records that you have to show your hours worked and the pay you received would help you.  ... View more

I can't say for sure, but you can call the phone number here to find out if your debt meets the requirements for refund offset. ... View more