“By the same token, really people get off the paper. “
I disagree, by filing electronically you make it easy for the GVT to demand more information to intrude in our lives. So I file by paper 20+ sheets, I can wait on the refund.
However, my grade school daughter get social security so I file taxes in her name, 1 or 2 pages, but IRS will not allow it to be filed electronically, has to mailed.
No. How you file has no impact on the government’s ability to demand information. All that happens when you file electronically is your forms get turned into bits while you wait and goes through the processing much quicker. When you file by paper some human types in your stuff, which turns your forms into bits and then it processes. E-file doesn’t the government access to anything they didn’t already have access too, it just cuts out a middle man.