An E-filing Environment - Did You Know?

AN E-FILING ENVIRONMENT DID YOU KNOW? E-filing is growing Individual tax retums by method of fling '04 69.1 million filed 61.4 million filed In the past eight years, the 68.2 '05 63.8 number of individual tax returns "06 59.9 74.2 e-filed has been increasing steadily, which is good news for our trees. *07 55.4 80.2 "08 51.6 85.7 "09 47.9 95.1 '10 45.8 90.4 paper e-file 11 43.6 98.3 Note: 2004, 2009 ngures actual other figures ore estimated or projected. E-filing helps reduce waste! Did you know that nearly one third of landfill waste in the U.S. is paper?' If we cut down our paper use, less landfill waste is produced. 32.7% %paper waste paper waste other waste This year we can save more paper with e-sign! You can save more trees than ever using e-file. You can now file a completely paper- less return, right down to your signature. You can use a self-selected Personal Identification Number (PIN) just as you would at a bank ATM. The PIN is your electronic signature. E-Sign We can reduce our paper trail The average American uses approximately one 100-foot-tall Douglas fir tree in paper and wood products per year according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 100 How much paper is that? foot tree Since there are different kinds of trees and different kinds of paper, there is no exact answer. However, the average pine tree will produce roughly 80,500 sheets of paper.? =80,500 foot person Sheets of Paper What does that look like? 80,500=161 500 SHEETS Sheets of paper Reams of copy paper in one ream That's a lot of paper! In 2009, 47.9 million people filed individual tax returns by paper. If the average individual tax return is three sheets of paper and tree produces roughly 80,500 sheets of paper, that would equal. Number of individual tax returns (1040) by method of filing, 2009 average pine 1,785 paper 47,852,805 e-file 95,130,626 pine trees Using the same calculation, the 95 million people who e-filed saved 3,544 trees! e-file your tax return for a greener future TurboTax Choose Easy. lUS. Environmental Protection Agency, 2007 report 2From the website www.howstuffworks.com Sources: Internal Revenue Service US. Environmental Protection Agency www.howstuffworks.com