The Internal Revenue Service has published a newly revised comprehensive tax guide on IRS.gov to help taxpayers get the most out of various tax benefits. However, the IRS is discontinuing its printed wall calendar listing various tax due dates.
Publication 17 has been published annually by the IRS since the 1940s and has been available on the IRS web site since 1996. As in prior years, this publication is packed with basic tax-filing information and tips on what income to report and how to report it, figuring capital gains and losses, claiming dependents, choosing the standard deduction versus itemizing deductions, and using IRAs to save for retirement.
Besides Publication 17, IRS.gov offers many other resources for those doing year-end tax planning. Many 2013 forms are already posted, and updated versions of
For tax professionals, the IRS also recently released the latest edition of its tax calendars in
The IRS noted on the cover of Publication 509 that Publication 1518, IRS Tax Calendar for Small
Businesses and Self-Employed, has been discontinued after 2013. However, the IRS said that an IRS Tax Calendar and most of the information previously contained in Publication 1518 can be found at