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After you’ve filed your 2025 tax return, what’s next? It’s easy to move on to other things, but taking a little time to address some tax-related items now can help you stay organized and avoid issues later. Here are a few to-dos.

With caregiving costs rising faster than inflation, it’s harder than ever to juggle parenting young children or caring for elderly relatives while also working nine to five. Your business can help support caregiving employees and boost productivity by offering dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs). This benefit provides a tax-advantaged method to pay for eligible caregiving expenses using pretax dollars.

Companies that engage in research and development activities may qualify for a federal tax credit for some of those expenses. The credit is complicated to calculate, and not all research activities are eligible — but the tax savings can be significant. Here are answers to questions you might have about this potentially lucrative tax break.

If you operate your business as a C corporation, how you put money into your company — and how you take it back out — can have a major impact on your tax bill. Payments from shareholders to fund the business can either be classified as capital contributions (equity) or shareholder loans (debt). That might sound like an accounting technicality, but it has real tax consequences because our federal income tax system treats corporate debt more favorably than corporate equity. Put simply, equity can lead to double taxation; loans can help you avoid it.

Generally, each year you can contribute up to the annual limit to a traditional or Roth IRA (or a combination of the two). But once the contribution deadline has passed, the opportunity to contribute for that year is lost forever. The deadline for 2025 IRA contributions is April 15, 2026. You may be eligible to deduct all or part of your IRA contribution and save taxes on your 2025 return. But even if you can’t claim a deduction, contributing can still be beneficial.

“Cross-functional” sales teams that collaborate with other departments often perform more effectively than siloed ones. By providing feedback and support, employees with varied skill sets and knowledge bases can help your sales team create more holistic sales strategies, better align product offerings with customer needs and efficiently adapt to market changes. Here’s how sales can leverage the expertise of marketing, product development, customer service, finance and other internal stakeholders.

Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) terminated several clean energy tax incentives earlier than previously scheduled. But if you bought an electric vehicle or made certain green home improvements last year, you might be eligible for a tax credit on your 2025 individual income tax return.

Does your business own its real estate in a separate holding company, such as a limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership? This practice can provide several advantages, including shielding property from your company’s creditors. It can also ease estate planning if, for example, you want to transfer business interests to your children while retaining ownership of the real estate. In addition, there are good tax reasons to separate the two. Let’s take a look.

You know your 2025 federal income tax return is due April 15, 2026. But do you know what else has an April 15 deadline? If you don’t, you could miss out on valuable tax-saving opportunities or become subject to interest and even penalties.