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Their taxes are easy, too. Just a handful of clicks through a free e-filing system. Most can also use a free in-person filing service (VITA.)

Most of the thousands of hours you hear about comes from working through legitimate complexity (complicated assets, stock splits, self-employment, etc.)

That’s not to say it wouldn’t be good to have more computing thrown at automating the rules for that complexity.

[Turing_Machine]

Right. Even a paper 1040EZ doesn't take more than a few minutes... probably even less online.

[ghaff]

The 1040EZ was eliminated I believe. But the same applies to the 1040 if you're just basically entering W2 info.