Tax Changes and Key Amounts for the 2023 Tax Year

Knowing the tax changes that apply for the 2023 tax year will give you a step up in planning and can impact your bottom line.

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Proper tax planning requires an awareness of what's new and changed from last year — and there are lots of tax law changes and updates for 2023 that you need to know.

To help you out, we put together a list of the most important tax law changes and adjustments for 2023, with some related items grouped together. Pay attention to these changes because they can hurt or help your bottom line. Use this information now so you can hold on to more of your hard-earned money when it's time to file your 2023 return.

Joy Taylor
Editor, The Kiplinger Tax Letter

Joy is an experienced CPA and tax attorney with an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. After many years working for big law and accounting firms, Joy saw the light and now puts her education, legal experience and in-depth knowledge of federal tax law to use writing for Kiplinger. She writes and edits The Kiplinger Tax Letter and contributes federal tax and retirement stories to kiplinger.com and Kiplinger’s Retirement Report. Her articles have been picked up by the Washington Post and other media outlets. Joy has also appeared as a tax expert in newspapers, on television and on radio discussing federal tax developments.