What this centre covers, and what it does not

Before anyone leans on this centre, here is the plain map of it. Every line below is a situation we have either written up, framed and handed off, or left alone on purpose. Nothing here is a reading of your own year.

Each line carries one of five plain labels. Covered here means a page in this centre walks through it. Covered after a step in another centre means the writing exists, but a different part of the site has to come first. Turns on facts we cannot see means the authority itself says the answer depends on the whole picture. Outside what this centre covers, and nothing stated yet, both mean the honest thing: we have not written it, so we will not imply we have.

The coverage map, situation by situation

What this centre covers, and what it does not

These are the situations we have written up, and the ones we have not. Pick the line closest to your year and we will say how far this centre goes on it. This is a note about our own pages: it decides nothing about your return, and it is not a view on whether you should use a professional.

  1. Which of these is closest to your year?

  • Wages only, one employer, no other activity — Covered here

    The wage workflow, the filing requirement question and the post-filing operations are all covered.

  • Wages plus bank interest and ordinary dividends — Covered here

    Supported while the facts stay inside the certified scope: the categories exist, and the schedule question is a stated instruction rather than a computation.

  • Self-employment or platform work — Covered, after a step in another centre

    The filing sequence and the return components are supported. The classification and expense law comes from the Gig Worker Center first.

  • Military pay or allowances — Covered, after a step in another centre

    The filing workflow is supported once the Military Tax Center has characterised the pay items.

  • A small number of security or digital asset sales with known basis — Covered here

    The dispositions form and capital gains schedule workflow is covered.

  • Sales where the reader does not know the basis — Turns on facts we cannot see

    Whether the workflow can proceed depends on whether the basis can be established from the reader's own records.

  • One residential rental with ordinary income and expenses — Covered here

    The supplemental income schedule workflow and its records are covered. Loss limitation and depreciation questions are not.

  • A K-1 raising basis or at-risk questions — Outside what this centre covers

    Requires entity-level history outside a filing workflow.

  • Pension, IRA or Social Security income — Covered here

    The statements, the part of the return they feed and the records are covered. How much of a benefit counts turns on the whole year, and distribution-code questions are not covered.

  • Marketplace health coverage during the year — Covered here

    The reconciliation requirement, the statement it comes from and the form that carries it are covered. No amount and no eligibility is worked out.

  • Something wrong on a return already filed — Covered here

    What the correction route is, and which form carries it, are covered. Whether any particular return should be amended is not something we decide.

  • Foreign accounts, foreign assets or filing from abroad — Outside what this centre covers

    Separate information-reporting regimes not researched in SF2.

  • An S corporation or partnership return — Outside what this centre covers

    Self-File is an individual-return centre.

  • Living or working in more than one state — Turns on facts we cannot see

    The federal workflow is unaffected. State filing depth is deferred, so Self-File states the boundary rather than answering it.

  • The reader has not described their situation — Nothing stated yet

    No support determination can be made without stated facts.

Reading this is not a sign that you should file without help. Plenty of situations are worth taking to a professional, and nothing here says otherwise.

The pages these lines point to

What this does NOT mean

Why we publish this map

A centre that only advertises what it has written is easy to trust and hard to check. Publishing the gaps in the same list as the coverage is how a reader can tell the difference between something we researched and something we simply never got to.

We do not work out anyone's tax, refund or balance. We explain what each rule asks for; the arithmetic belongs to you and to whatever you file with.

Sources

Every source on this page shows the body that issued it and the date we read it. Amounts are stated for tax year 2025, and the text behind this centre was last read on 2026-08-16.

Where to go next

Educational information only. This is not tax advice, we are not your tax preparer, and nothing here is a determination about your own return. Check the linked official sources, and consider a professional for anything that turns on your specific facts.