Happy Tax Day Everyone!
Hope everyone is done and relaxed for the rest of the year now.
I was looking at some of the forms and was struck by the prevalence of the paperwork reduction act notices. Yes, they've been there for years, but I guess I have too much time on my hands now.
But I was curious so I counted the pieces of paper that are my 2012 returns.
A whopping 26 pages.
That is both federal and state and to be fair, that 1 page return was when NJ didn't have an income tax.
How much paper to produce those 26 pages? 88 pieces of paper. W-2, 1099, charitable donation receipts, etc. etc.
Whew. Glad we've reduced all that paper.
Back in the 60s my tax return was a single piece of paper. True I have investments I didn't have back then and I didn't own a house etc. This is my 1967 tax return.
That's it. Eleven pieces of information. Address is item 1 and my refund is line 11. Now that's paperwork reduction.
