{"id":124789,"date":"2026-02-06T04:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124789\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:43:14","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124789\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax season is here, and filing taxes can be taxing! There are ways to make the process easier and at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS lets you file taxes for free and even has software that does the job if you meet certain income requirements.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 spoke with public accountant Erika Calderon about some tips on how to make the process of filing taxes as painless as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust make sure you have all your documents ready. Collect your W-2 forms, 1099\u2019s, everything you need to get it in as soon as you can so we can get everything filed. I always suggest going to a professional because we are always up to date with tax laws and the changes, and there were a lot of changes that happened this year,\u201d said Calderon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tax season is here, and filing taxes can be taxing! There are ways to make the process easier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-124789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}