…from the NY Times….
Last year may have felt like nothing more than an extension of 2020 — a slog of Zoom meetings, testing lines and will-we-or-won’t-we return to office plans. But 2021, the first full year of the pandemic, may look different when it comes to your taxes.
You may have collected a third stimulus check and a more generous child tax credit, including some of it in advance. You may not have stepped foot into your workplace for an entire year, and decamped to a different state. Or maybe you jumped into the meme stock pandemonium, putting you among the millions of Americans who started trading stocks last year.
If you’re worried about tax surprises, this is your guide to what to watch out for. And here’s some good news: You have a couple of extra days to sort it all out. For most taxpayers, returns must be filed online or postmarked by April 18….