The computer can help a modern consumer do just about anything - keep in touch, shop, make vacation reservations. Among those conveniences, filing taxes is also only a few clicks away. In 2005, 68.5 individual returns were filed electronically, an 11 percent increase over the previous year, according to the Internal Revenue Service. More than 8 million business returns were also e-filed, up from 6.7 million in 2004.
“We are becoming a paperless society. Even some forms can only be obtained online,” says Clarke Whitney, CPA, with the firm Clarke Whitney CPAs. read more »