{"id":632,"date":"2015-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/advice-new-taxpayers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:54:10","slug":"advice-new-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/advice-new-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for New Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn&#039;t. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here&#039;s what you should know.<\/p>\n<p>If you are paying taxes for the first time, there are a few things you should\u00a0consider. \u00a0For one, you must decide on which filing status you fall under. \u00a0There are three statuses you may be under if you are an individual &#8211; Single\/head of household, Married filing jointly with spouse and Married filing separately from spouse. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-help\/\">Click here to read or watch more IRS Help resources.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there is the frequency for paying your taxes. \u00a0Most American wage earners authorize their employers to withhold a certain amount from their paychecks each month for taxes. \u00a0Otherwise, you may choose to pay quarterly.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s the question of who should file your taxes for you or should you file it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an article on some of these matters and in particular <a title=\"Who should do your taxes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/personalfinance\/2015\/02\/22\/adviceiq-options-for-filing-taxes\/23794703\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who should do your taxes<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"Who should do your taxes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/personalfinance\/2015\/02\/22\/adviceiq-options-for-filing-taxes\/23794703\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/personalfinance\/2015\/02\/22\/adviceiq-options-for-filing-taxes\/23794703\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn&#039;t. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here&#039;s what you should know. If you are paying taxes for the first time, there are a few things you should\u00a0consider. \u00a0For [&hellip;]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22397,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/22397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}