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Navigating tax season can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. While we don’t offer tax advice, we’ve created this resource hub to help you simplify planning and have more productive conversations with your clients. You'll find insights to stay ahead year-round and avoid surprises.

Effective tax planning goes beyond filing — it's about helping clients reduce unnecessary taxes and keep more of what they earn. With the right tax strategy in place, you can help them make smarter decisions, take advantage of tax-smart opportunities, and avoid costly mistakes. Explore these resources to make tax season easier and more proactive for both you and your clients

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Investor-Facing Tax Season Tools

White-Label Client Email Templates

Simplify tax season client communications with our ready-to-use email templates, designed to help you provide timely, helpful updates to clients on key tax topics — without stepping into their CPA's role.

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Post-Tax Wealth Review

Leverage your clients' tax returns to uncover new opportunities. Use this guide to help start conversations around effective investment tax management, turning tax season insights into a personalized roadmap for financial success.

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Key Tax Forms

Help Your Clients Gather Documents

Do your clients have everything they need to file their taxes? Here are some of the most common documents and information they may need to complete their income tax returns.1

Investments and Distributions

Form NameForm Description
Consolidated 1099 Tax StatementMay include Forms 1099-B, 1099-DIV, 1099-INT, 1099-OID, and 1099-MISC
Form 1099-RDistributions and other retirement account activity, including Roth converstions
Form 1099-QDistributions from 529 savings plans

Employment and Other Income

Form NameForm Description
Form W-2Employment income
Form 1099-GUnemployment compensation and state tax refunds
Form 1099-NECNonemployee compensation
Form 1099-MISCMiscellaneous income, including rent and royalties
Form 1099-KIncome from payment cards and 3rd-party payment networks
Schedule K-1Partnership, S corporation, and trust income
Form 1099-RPensions, annuities, IRAs, and qualified plans
Form SSA-1099 or Form RRB-1099Social Security benefits or railroad retirement benefits

Homeowner Information

Form NameForm Description
Form 1098Mortgage interest
Form 1099-SSale of your home or other real estate
Settlement statementTransactions associated with buying, selling, or financing real estate
Tax receiptsShowing real estate taxes paid

Other Documentation

  • Gifts to charity (cash and noncash)
  • Childcare expenses
  • Personal property tax receipts
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions and distributions
  • Medical and dental expenses
  • Traditional IRA contributions
  • Deductible retirement plan contributions
  • Higher education fees: Form 1098-T
  • Student Loan Interest Statement Form 1098-E
  • Investment expense records, including margin interest expense
  • Alimony received or paid
Key Dates

2025 Tax Season Calendar

April 15 is the big deadline for tax season, but there are other deadlines you should keep in mind for your practice and your clients. Check the calendar below to help you be aware of some additional key dates.2

Date

Tax Event

Jan. 15, 2026Final 2025 Estimated Tax Payment Due
Jan. 31, 2025IRS Begins Accepting Returns
Feb. 2, 2026Employers and financial institutions must provide W-2 and most 1099 forms to employees, contractors, and taxpayers
March 16, 2026Deadline to file Form 1120-S (S-Corporations) and Form 1065 (Partnerships), or request an extension
April 1, 2026Individuals who turned 73 in 2025 must take their first Required Minimum Distribution by April 1, 2026 if they delayed it from the prior year
April 15, 2026Deadline to file 2025 federal income tax returns or request an extension
Taxes owed must also be paid by this date
Final day to contribute to IRAs and HSAs for the 2025 tax year
First estimated tax payment due for the 2026 tax year
May 31, 2026Financial institutions must provide Form 5498 (IRA Contribution Information) reporting IRA contributions, rollovers, conversions, and year-end account values
June 15, 2026Second quarterly estimated tax payment due for the 2026 tax year
Sept. 15, 2026Third quarterly estimated tax payment due for the 2026 tax year
Deadline for extended S-Corp and Partnership returns
Oct. 15, 2026Federal tax-filing deadline for individuals who filed an extension

Note: All business entity deadlines listed are for calendar tax-year reporting with a Dec. 31 year-end. Different deadlines may apply for business entities reporting on a fiscal tax year.

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Orion Custom Indexing

Every Season Is Tax Season

Tax planning doesn’t end on filing day — with Orion Custom Indexing, you have a year-round opportunity to enhance your clients’ financial outcomes. Prepare your clients for future tax years by implementing personalized, tax-aware strategies that help minimize tax drag and aim to maximize after-tax returns.

Explore how Orion Custom Indexing makes it easy to deliver tailored, tax-efficient investment solutions.

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1Source: Edward Jones: Do you have everything you need to do your taxes?

2Source: Edward Jones: Tax season calendar

This information is general in nature and is not intended as tax advice. You should consult a tax professional as to how this applies to an individual tax situation. Nothing contained herein is intended to constitute accounting, legal, tax, security or investment advice, nor an opinion regarding the appropriateness of any investment, or solicitation of any type.

Wealth management services provided by Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC (“OPS”), a registered investment advisor. Orion OCIO services provided by TownSquare Capital, LLC (“TSC”), a registered investment advisor. OPS and TSC are affiliates and wholly owned subsidiaries of Orion Advisor Solutions, Inc.

Custom Indexing offered through Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC a registered investment advisor.

Custom Indexing is an investment strategy wherein a portfolio is managed to mimic an index or other portfolio, while taking into account the tax position, holdings, and individual investing preferences of a client. The performance of a portfolio using custom indexing may vary significantly from the target index (referred to as tracking error or tracking difference), and this variance may increase with greater customization within a portfolio.

Tax-loss Harvesting is a process by which securities trading at unrealized losses are sold to realize a taxable loss. Proceeds from the sales are then used to reinvest in alternate securities to maintain market exposure. Tax-loss Harvesting can be used as a strategy to offset realized gains from other investments and/or carried forward to later calendar years to offset future taxable gains.