Reminder: Khan Academy still has basic explanations on taxes in the U.S. This should help you with understanding tax brackets, deductions, and other related information.

[u/zonination]

Basically a repost from last year, but I felt the need to remind people that this resource exists. There are some simple explanations of tax law in the U.S. over at Khan Academy. Here are a couple links:

• Introduction to Tax Brackets
• Introduction to Deductions
• A link to all lessons in the Tax Portal

And since retirement accounts tie into deductions:

• Link to the Retirement Accounts lessons

Let me know if there's anything related I should add to this list. Happy filing!

[u/HomicideSS]

It's annoying how they don't teach this in high school. It's okay though, we learned a bunch of irrelevant things

[u/SigaVa → u/HomicideSS]

The purpose of school is to teach you how to learn and think, not to teach you specific applied skills. That way you can go learn stuff like this on your own.

[u/pm_me_ur_math_hw → u/[deleted]]

Your experience does not apply to every high school. I feel I got a tremendous education in my (public) high school.

[u/pm_me_ur_math_hw → u/[deleted]]

I even had the opportunity to go to a local community college to take classes for free. I graduated with 30 credits. It was way easier than AP classes, however based on what I've seen

[u/MamaXerxes → u/[deleted]]

All of my AP classes were harder than my college courses in their corresponding subjects.

[u/HenryDavidThrowaway9 → u/[deleted]]

My experience may just be piss-poor, but I never held the AP course I took to a very high regard. They were just parroting larger concepts back to the instructor. The extent of critical thought was distilled into memorizing taglines, quotes and key words for the evaluations, just like standard classes. Enlightening elucidations from any high school course curriculum were few and far between.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Accounting was a elective in my school so yes, sadly it's true.

[u/FlavorfulCondomints → u/[deleted]]

What school were you at? I definitely learned how to think and took tests/quizzes/etc. in a public US high school that were not "fill in the blank" or all multiple choice.

[u/FlavorfulCondomints → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I took both regular and AP. Still did critical thinking stuff in both levels, but I understand that the dynamic is different in a larger Texas school.