Most of us send our tax forms off in mid-March, watch our refunds get deposited into our bank accounts and then breathe a sigh of relief that we don’t have to worry about the hot mess that is taxes until the following winter. Believe it or not, though, waiting until the eleventh hour, trying to claim everything that even remotely applies to you and hoping for the best really isn’t the best strategy. In fact it is one of the biggest tax mistakes you can make (and one that is really easy to fix). The simple fact is that a lot of...