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.

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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/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/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.