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Qualified dividends are favorably taxed at capital gains rates, while ordinary dividends are taxed at higher ordinary income rates. Review this information to see if there is an excess of ordinary dividends.

Dividend income can be found on Form 1040, Lines 3a and 3b (see Schedule B for additional detail).

Tax-equivalent yield is the yield an investor would need to earn on a taxable bond in order to match the return on a comparable tax-exempt municipal bond.

Highly taxed clients with sizeable allocations to bonds should consider their tax-equivalent yields on any taxable bonds.

Interest can be found on Form 1040, Lines 2a and 2b (see Schedule B for additional detail).Being aware of your clients' carryover losses can help to inform your gains recognition strategy for 2023.

Clients who actively harvest losses and cannot use them all in the same year may have carryover losses that are available to use in future tax years. Clients with large realized gains on assets held away from you may not be aware of their ability to harvest losses to offset their gains. Capital gains/losses can be found on Form 1040, Line 7 with additional detail available on Schedule D.It's important to understand your clients' earned income, as it will impact their tax rates as well as their ability to make IRA contributions. Compare this number to the amount of earned income they have reported over the past several years, and ask how this number might change going forward.

Earned income can be found on Form 1040, Line 1z.

Changes to your clients' filing status can have a dramatic impact on their income taxes.

Filing status can be found at the very top of Form 1040.

As the tax filing deadline approaches, offer to review clients' Forms 1040 to gain a better understanding of all sources of income and discuss opportunities to help improve their tax efficiency.