Question

Sara earned $2,500 as a life guard over the summer. This was her only job and income taxes were deducted from her paychecks by her employer. For filing a tax return, what would Sara do?

Answer 1

she would have to accumulate the amount of hours she works and costs for things. As in, if she had to fill her had tank often in order to get to work, she'd get tax return from that also

Answer 2

I believe the answer is: she would have to accumulate the amount of hours she works and costs for things she need to do her job.

Both of these could be use to determine the tax bracket where Sara belonged and could be considered as tax deduction that could be made to reclaim some part of Sara's tax payment. This would give Sara the most amount of income that she could use for future consumption.