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If you only have W2s and (most) 1099s and make <$200,000 it's pretty straightforward to use free file fillable forms for federal and your state's free electronic filing service. You can also mail the forms in. You just do 1040 and skip all the schedules.

Only about a third of tax returns have no schedule 1-6 or schedule a, which was very surprising to me. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/filing-season-statistics

I've only had such simple taxes for like a couple adult years. I've had at least 1 other complication every year since. The stats seem to imply a similar pattern broadly too since each schedule is only filed by a minority of returns, but most returns file at least one schedule.



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