Your Taxes Could Get a Lot Easier This Year

As a tax professor, I love taxes: the theory, the policy, even the politics. But I have a confession to make. My taxes are not complicated. Yet, every year, I spend hour upon hour gathering documents, paying for tax preparation software, entering in my income, and puzzling through the instructions as I try to figure out whether I am eligible for this or that deduction or credit. Every year, I think to myself: There has got to be a better way!