Hello, Wineappers. My name is Jesse Meakin with another episode of The Wineapp Podcast,

where we teach you four rules to help you stop having paycheck to paycheck, get out of

debt and save more money. One of the ways that freaks me out in which you can save or spend

just inordinate amounts of money accidentally is with taxes. Totally mortifies me. I've

talked about that before. I've had Casey, my tax advisor, on the podcast before here, and then

Mark and I over at the beginning balance more business-oriented podcast had Casey on for a

series over there, which was excellent. I am going to attempt to answer a few questions related

to taxes today, all with the caveat that you seek professional advice. And that doesn't mean

Googling. That means legitimate professional advice. But I can maybe steer you in the right

direction to start seeking that advice and we'll hope to do so today. If you want just kind of a

high level overview of taxes and how the situation may apply to you specifically, I highly suggest

that you jump over to the beginning balance podcast and listen to those episodes where Mark and I

grill Casey, who is a tax professional on all things taxes. It's pretty fun as far as

taxes go. Chrissy asks, is there any reason to pay to get your taxes done when you can just use

free programs? If you have a simple tax situation, my word used the free programs. For instance,

I was trying to do my son's taxes, help him, and kind of show him how it worked. And his situation

is a W2 or a couple W2s. He has no deductions, nothing. You just answer questions, boom, boom,

boom. We use turbo tax from into it and done. That was it. You really can, if you play your cards

right and you don't upgrade when they say you should upgrade, you can do it for free. And for some

states, it can even be free. For super simple taxes, you can also download a paper form and

go the old, old, old school way. I wish more states would make just their forms a little easier to

use, but it is what it is. So yeah, if you have simple tax situation, then I think the software,

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