Americans Spent Nearly 10 Billion Hours on Government Forms Last Year

By U.S. News Staff

July 31, 2009 RSS Feed Print
  • 9.9 billion: Number of hours Americans spent on government paperwork last year
  • 2 billion: Increase in hours from 2004, a 25 percent increase
  • 1 billion: Estimated number of hours in 1981
  • 7.7 billion: Number of hours spent on IRS forms, or 80 percent of the total
  • $460 billion: Estimated labor cost of the 9.9 billion hours of federal paperwork

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Sources: New York Times, Congressional Research Service

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Codeculture of 7:22PM December 31, 2009

In Scotland people used to be taxed on the number of windows in their houses. Therefore, they cemented them up.

This is all about growing government and our dependence on government for EVERYTHING.

We need to rebel and throw out the politicians who tax us.

Michael Edwards of CA 2:03PM August 01, 2009

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