Full text
The research, in full
The full research behind this site: what filing costs, who spent what to keep it that way, and the honest case against us.
The Evidence page lists the six numbers this site leads with. These are the documents underneath it — published as written, drafts marked draft, unverified figures marked unverified, open questions left open.
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The policy
Policy 03: IRS to automate income tax filing.
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The arithmetic
The lifetime cost of mandatory tax filing to one American
Quantitative backing for the April project hero framing. Source of record for the per-return burden figures is ../../docs/research/policy-03-tax-filing.md; where this document departs from that doc, the reason is stated and the research doc needs correcting (…