KEY TAKEAWAYS Ask your employer how much you earned in overtime this year. It may impact your tax bill in April. That means many workers will have to calculate how much overtime pay they can deduct themselves for the 2025 tax year and will have to work with their employer to obtain this amount, said Alison Flores, director of tax research and content strategy at H&R Block. "For most people, we expect a pay stub is what we'll be looking at. So you'll want your last pay stub of the year," Flores said. "It hop ...