Announcing CopyPasteTaxes

February 6, 2021 โ€” Your taxes should be a single text file that is easy to read. You should be able to use a nice spreadsheet to do it or a plain old notepad. Filling out your taxes each year should mostly just be updating a few lines in that text/file, and copy pasting the whole thing into IRS.gov. Experts who understand the deductions should be able to provide snippets that you can copy/paste into your taxes.

The whole thing should take just a few minutes per year, and you should be able to do it yourself, for free, if you so choose.

Proof of Concept

A tiny demonstration of how it will work can be found here.

The Plan

Here's the plan.