Procrastinating About Your Taxes? Here’s How to Get Moving

Tax pros offer their best tips for people facing “crunch time” for their returns.
Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg
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This doesn’t have to hurt… yet.

That’s the takeaway I got this week after calling three tax professionals across the US, with roughly three weeks to go until the April 15 deadline for filing returns. The experts I called all agreed that if you haven’t started preparing yet, you’re definitely in “crunch time.” But their strategies were smart — and very relieving, perhaps even for the author of a personal-finance newsletter who hasn’t fired up his TurboTax yet, either.