That's a good point! Most of the data already known to the IRS is available in an electronic format anyway. I fire up TurboTax, electronically import my W-2, t

That's a good point! Most of the data already known to the IRS is available in an electronic format anyway. I fire up TurboTax, electronically import my W-2, the tax statements from my bank, etc. and I'm 90% done. And the remaining items (various deductions, reporting my foreign bank accounts, etc.) are things that the IRS itself probably also wouldn't know right at the beginning of the year.