 Income tax 2022, 2023, tax law and tax authority. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Like any general set of laws or general set of rules, the tax law can get quite complicated quite quickly. Therefore, we need some kind of formalized structure, some kind of system that we can go to when doing tax preparation to help us in applying our general rules while doing tax preparation, which is one, to be in compliance with the tax law, and two, to do so while being able to pay as little taxes as we're legally required to do. Now normally, if you have a fairly basic tax return, usually lower income tax returns, although those are getting more and more complex these days due to refundable credits and changes in the tax code, but if it's a fairly basic tax return, it's somewhat standardized. We have our W-2s, we've got our 1099s, and so on.