Your 2025 tax questions, answered

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Tax attorneys Hana Boruchov and Leo Gabovich answer questions from our audience about the 2025 tax season. They explain whether or not to get an accountant, what to do if you can't pay your tax bill, and how to handle taxes when you work remotely.

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor, How to Be a Better Human, a podcast from TED.
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0:16.8	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:23.9	Hey, everybody. You're listening to Life Kit from NPR. Hey everybody, it's Mariel.
0:26.5	So it's that time again.
0:28.1	Time to file your taxes.
0:30.1	If you're getting a refund, maybe you've already done that.
0:32.5	If not, maybe you're waiting until the very last minute.
0:36.3	Either way, the deadline to file and pay what you owe is April 15th.
0:40.8	I will say, pretty much everybody I know dreads the filing part
0:44.6	because it involves paperwork and numbers, but also because it's scary.
0:49.2	Most of us didn't learn how to do our taxes in school.
0:52.0	And so you may worry you're not doing it right,
0:54.8	and that you're going to get hauled off in handcuffs because you forgot to report one of your 1099s. That isn't
0:59.8	going to happen, by the way. So let's all take a big, deep breath together. For this episode of
1:05.6	Life Kit, we collected tax questions from listeners, and I posed them to two tax attorneys, Hannah Borikov and
1:12.0	Leo Gabovich, partners at the firm Borikov, Gabovic and Associates PC. I asked them your questions
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1:59.4	people have an accountant file their
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