Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

My local paper has a useful guide to this year’s federal membership funds drive.

Learn, for instance, that 13—and a half!—hours is the basic 1040 norm this year—and that’s excluding schedule forms. I’m going to have to assume, however, that this number applies to those doing their taxes on paper, who are probably reading their paper on paper and would never encounter the useful guide to this year’s federal membership funds drive.

For them, there’s always IRS Publication 17: Your Federal Income Tax. Call the IRS and they’ll send the document to you—after cheerfully advising you of their web site. But if you could do that you could just handle the whole job online and save yourself 10—and a half!—hours.