Here Is a List of What The IRS Suggests You Have Ready When Filing Your Taxes:

A copy of last year's tax return

Personal identification [driver's license, social security card] for you and your spouse, if applicable, showing the social security numbers

The social security cards of your dependents, if applicable

W-2s from all of your employers

Forms 1099 showing dividends and interest paid to you throughout the year from each bank, brokerage firm, investment company and mutual fund in which you invested in 2004

Form 1099-G showing any refund, credit or offset of state and local taxes

All receipts pertaining to your small business

Forms 1099-DIV, 1099-R

Income receipts from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, corporations, trusts

Unemployment compensation

Social security benefits

Other income

Medical and dental expenses

Receipts from taxes you paid such as state and local taxes, real estate taxes, personal property taxes

Form 1098 for home mortgage interest and points

Receipts for charitable contributions and gifts

Casualty and theft losses

Job expenses

For more information: go to http://www.irs.gov