If you want to file the IRS Form 1040EZ or a simple IRS Form 1040 there is an abundance of  free resources such as IRS Publications and IRS Instructions that are  all provided by the IRS to help you get the  answer your tax questions.The IRS wants to help you and with a little research by you  at the  their website you should be able to save money that you otherwise might have to pay to a tax professional. If you can figure out  WordPress,or Blogger, build a cabinet, follow instructions to assemble your child’s new toy, then you should be able to prepare you own tax return, as long as it’s simple and look up the answers to your tax question. The IRS wants to make it simple for you, so they have set up an easy and well-designed website, to help you.  It’s so important for this website to be helpful, the IRS made their  first dropdown menu  on their homepage for “individuals” and is named as such. You will find it easy to locate each section within the IRS Publications and IRS Instructions. If you would like to use these free IRS resources and would like access to all of the IRS links mentioned in this article, please visit my website.

The following sections will help you understand and provide you with several free tax  resources which include FAQs, a knowledge base and the IRS Publications and IRS Instructions all freely provided by the IRS.

Your Federal Income Tax Guide

This is a 295 page guide to help you. This is a very comprehensive guide that covers  most tax areas and will certainly cover  most simple tax returns and is a good resource for any IRS Form 1040EZ or a simple IRS Form 1040. The guide has a table of contents and index, which makes online navigation easy. The IRS has set up bookmarks for this PDF file, so browsing and researching your questions should be easy.And it  gets better, the index is also linked to each section..To facilitate navigation within this documents, you must keep the left side that shows the bookmarks always open, since there are no link backs from the section where you are researching returning you to the index.

Frequently Asked Tax Questions and Answers –

If you don’t want to read the 295 pages in Publication 17 as mentioned above, then  consider this section entitled Top Frequently Asked Questions which currently has 10 broad areas and  Frequently Asked Question Categories which consists of 17 broad categories. As you look into each area you will see that there are other links to different questions. Each section has references to the various IRS Publications and IRS Instructions when additional  research is required.

IRS Tax Map – Navigation bar and Knowledge base.

The IRS has also put together a very detailed and comprehensive knowledge base , that contains 5000 tax topics and 400 main topics. You can also browse by Frequently Asked Tax Questions, or IRS Publications and IRS Instructions and 150 topics written for the telephone. To enable users to find tax law information faster and more easily than traditional methods the IRS created a Tax Map which is basically a knowledge base.. The web based resources provided by the IRS are helpful and you should utilize them. The database is designed to organize information around subjects of interest to most taxpayers. There are  links to the topic pages of related topics, as well as to relevant forms, instructions, and publications.

If your AGI is $58,000 or less, you can file free from the IRS website,with the IRS’s Free File software or  by using  any of the cooperating well known companies mentioned in my website.

If you visit my website, under the page entitled “Detailed Analysis” briefly analyzes four well know competing online tax software companies, all of whom provide free filing for the IRS, if you qualify and they will charge you a fee if you don’t qualify for the free file option. There is an  extra charge  for your state income tax return. As you will shortly conclude they are very similar in prices and quality and you need to determine which is the best fit. I suggest that you try the free service and if you don’t like it, then simply choose another one, and also become familiar with their website and ease of navigation and also read the free resources such as  IRS Instructions, IRS Publications, Tax FAQ’s and the IRS knowledge base.