3 Ways I Made My Tax Return Bigger Throughout The Year
Sure, we all have to be responsible citizens and pay our taxes, but why not try to get some of your hard-earned money back? These hacks are legit and legal, not to mention tried and true by yours truly.
The summer before I entered college, I went to Europe for six weeks. At one point in the trip, I volunteered for almost two weeks at a handicapped pilgrim site in Lourdes, France, in the Pyrenees Mountains. There I met countless people from different countries all around the world, and some had come with their families on their vacation as they had done for a few years running. These families, I found out, would come every summer to vacation at this spot, volunteer for part of the day, then the rest of the time they would take day trips, go sightseeing or hiking, and at night they’d explore restaurants and meet up for coffee and dessert with their friends. But, because the majority of the time was technically serving as volunteers at a charity organization, they wrote the whole trip off their taxes. It was a light bulb moment for me!