10/25/2026
Waiting for your W-2 and 1099s is fine for filing. It is late for many planning conversations.
Tax forms are designed to report what already happened.
By the time they arrive, the salary was earned, the bonus was paid, the RSUs vested and the stock may already have been sold.
For a high-income technology professional, the better planning window is while those events are still unfolding.
Use October and November to review what has happened so far and what is still expected before December 31.
Then filing season becomes a reporting process - not the first time you are seeing the year's full tax picture.