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THE IRS SPEAKS FOR THE TREES

May 31, 2006

GE has electronically filed "the nation's largest tax return," at 237 MB, according to the IRS. In terms of paper, it would be 24,000 pages long.

Ah, what a fine use of our nation's intellectual resources -- brainpower that might be otherwise squandered developing new products to improve our lives.

Natural resource-wise, extensive research leads me to believe that electronic filing of the return could save approximately 14.3 trees. That assumes the 45 states with income taxes, plus DC, will accept an electronic version of the 24,000-page federal return, instead of insisting on a paper copy, and that the client will keep its own copy in electronic format. It also assumes that one tree yields 80,500 pages.

(Hat tip: The TaxProf.)

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