Ways to Improve the Tax System: Return-Free Filing

This section examines whether the government could free taxpayers from having to fill out their own tax returns, the implications of such a change, and how return-free filing has worked in California and in other countries .

• What is it and how would it work?
• What are the benefits?
• What are the drawbacks?
• How would the tax system need to change?
• Who would qualify?
• Would it raise taxes?
• What was the experience in California?
• What other countries use it?