Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the thick of tax season. Over the next two weeks tens of millions of Americans (aka, the procrastinators) will be preparing their 2016 calendar year taxes and likely e-filing them with the Internal Revenue Service.
Tax time is, for most Americans, a bittersweet process. On one hand, preparing your taxes makes watching paint dry or grass grow look appealing. Reviewing a mountain of your previous years’ receipts and complying with what amounts to more than 10 million words of IRS tax code, according to the Tax Foundation, just aren’t any fun.