I just finished doing my 2025 taxes

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I just finished doing my 2025 taxes - sh.itjust.works

Spent 10 minutes with my SO, moving our shared deductions between us to see which distribution resulted in the lowest amount of taxes. Turns out that the tax authorities are pretty good at what they do, as the best distribution was what they’d already prefilled. Despite having very different income, no matter how we moved the numbers, the numbers at the bottom didn’t change in a manner where the total would result in a higher refund. So we both ended up filing our taxes with no changes to the prefilled values.

Since we’re on the topic, this year I quit using turbo tax, and tried freetaxusa. It’s just as easy, they found me a bigger refund, and it’s a LOT less expensive to file.
Also use freetaxUSA. 3 years in and its super easy