Automatic Tax Filing: Simulating a Pre-Populated Form 1040

We thank participants at the Office of Tax Analysis Annual Research Conference, the Georgetown University Law Center Tax Law and Public Finance workshop, and the IRS-TPC Joint Research Conference on Tax Administration for helpful comments. We thank Maxwell Grozovsky for excellent research assistance. This research was conducted while Goodman and Whitten were employees at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or the official positions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy, nor do they necessarily represent those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Any taxpayer data used in this research was kept in a secured Treasury or IRS data repository, and all results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The authors declare that they have no relevant financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.

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