{"id":13137,"date":"2015-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/today-is-tax-freedom-day\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:57:56","slug":"today-is-tax-freedom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/today-is-tax-freedom-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Tax Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of what you've read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I'm Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I've been doing this for 32 years. Here's what's actually true.<\/p>\n

www.pnj.com \u2013 Today, state taxpayers have finally made enough money to pay their total tax burden for the year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. Starting the next day, you actually get to keep the money you make. This holiday has been dubbed “Tax Freedom Day.”<\/p>\n

But there’s nothing worth celebrating when it comes to Florida’s and America’s tax<\/a> burden. It takes you more than 100 days before the money you earn is truly yours. That’s roughly a third of your income every year that never makes it into your pocket. In fact, you’re likely spending more on taxes than you will on food, clothing, and housing \u2014 combined.<\/p>\n

Read more about Today is Tax Freedom Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out more Tax News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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Most of what you've read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I'm Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I've been doing this for 32 years. Here's what's actually true. www.pnj.com \u2013 Today, state taxpayers have finally made enough money to pay their total tax burden for the year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28831,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions\/28831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}