The tax on paying your taxes
Have you e-filed your taxes yet? Or did you take the cheaper option and mail them for the cost of a 41-cent stamp?
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., doesn’t say which way he filed but, like me, he’s upset about the extra cost of e-filing. He said today that he plans to introduce a bill that would make e-filing free for everyone. Here’s some of his rhetoric:
“The bottom line is that the IRS is imposing an additional ‘tax’ on people paying their taxes,” Schumer said. “The current system forces millions of Americans to pay a fee for the ‘privilege’ of filing their taxes, even though e-filing is cheaper for the IRS to process.”
According to an analysis by the Joint Economic Committee, which Schumer chairs, Americans will spend $1.2 billion this year on e-filing fees.
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David Nicklaus has covered St. Louis business for more than 25 years. His column appears three days a week on the Post-Dispatch business page. 
What about all the “time” (which equals money) spent doing taxes? Any plans on making that go away as well?
BTW, I paid so I used the stamp.