 Income tax 2021, 2022, educator expenses. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive in into income tax 2021, 2022. Income tax formula focused in on the adjustments to income, which you might hear called the above the line deductions or the schedule one deductions, keeping them distinct in our mind from the standard deductions and the itemized deductions. The adjustments to income are those deductions that are up top a subtotal to get us down to the adjusted gross income. In other words, income minus the adjustments to income get us to the adjusted gross income, the AGI, which is important because the adjusted gross income is usually the number that's gonna be used or at least started out from in order to calculate phase outs, phase outs on things like deductions and credits as the income level goes up. In other words, those phase outs as income level goes up aren't usually gonna be starting with just the top line, the income.