Take all applicable tax credits

You must claim all tax credits available to you. Some of them being Lifetime Learning Credit or up to 1000 dollars tax credit on a child up to the age of seventeen. For each child under the age of 17, there is up to a 1,000 dollars tax credit.

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That is, you get some sort of tax exemption, partial or full, on 1000 dollars for each child of yours who is below the age of seventeen. It may vary from country to country, but surely most country provides this exemption in some form or another. This is a great way of saving tax, and you surely should avail this opportunity to save tax in this form, if you can.

There are also various other credits, such as those available when you adopt a child or when you elect to claim a Lifetime Learning Credit. These as well as many other credits are available in most of the countries, so you are surely bound to find some credits which you can avail. A lot of tax can be saved through such credits.

You should also be on a lookout on reforms in the income tax slabs, and introduction of new tax credits.

This is because some people are not even aware of a type of tax saving credit, which may have been introduced several years ago. Due to carelessness on their part, they lost a lot of money in the form of tax, which they could have saved.