The deadline for 2015 returns is April 18, 2016.

This year, several tax forms have been revamped to make the process easier and more efficient.

This year, you need to be prepared for some new forms and new looks to some old forms.

Congress finally passed” The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015”. This was the long anticipated bill that will finally extend more than 50 tax provisions that have left tax payers in doubt over the last several years.

The stretch IRA isn’t really a savings vehicle—it’s an estate-planning strategy for extending the life of an IRA across multiple generations, enabled by IRS interpretation of the tax code.

For the last several years, taxpayers have faced great uncertainty determining whether they can depend on tax incentives to help them lower taxes. These have become known as the “51 Tax Extenders”. Last December, Congress extended most of these provisions for one year retroactively to the beginning of 2014, but not going forward, so they expired again at the end of 2014.