The date April 15 can mean many things — a birthday or an anniversary — but for most Americans, it’s Tax Day.
With the deadline a week away, Georgia Gwinnett College’s associate professor of legal studies and taxation, Benjamin Akins, JD, LLM, offers some tips and dispels one myth when it comes to filing your taxes.
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