claim: americans spend "6.1 billion hours a year" on tax preparation.
author: virginia foxx
evidence_1: jul 16, 2017 ... an analysis of irs data by the taxpayer advocate service (tas) shows that  individuals and businesses spend about 6.1 billion hours a year complying with  tax-filing requirements. “if tax compliance were an industry, it would be one of the  largest in the united states,” the report says. “to consume 6.1 billion ...
evidence_2: apr 6, 2016 ... while $29.6 billion can be chalked up to software, tax preparation fees, supplies,  and other overhead for the yearly tax filing chore. the remainder of the costs,  made up mostly of .... portions dealing directly with the 1040 series. under this  estimate, americans spend an average of 6.1 billion hours annually!
evidence_3: jan 5, 2011 ... ... taxpayers spend collecting data for and filling out each individual tax form by  the number of forms filed to estimate that americans (both individuals and  businesses) spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with the code. that's the  equivalent of more than 3 million workers toiling away full time, all year.
evidence_4: jun 15, 2016 ... the irs recently estimated that americans will spend 8.9 billion hours complying  with irs tax-filing requirements in 2016. ... for example, the time spent complying  with business income taxes costs $147 billion annually, while preparing  individual income taxes costs another $99 billion. there are also ...
evidence_5: apr 15, 2013 ... fact checker | how many hours do americans spend on filing their taxes? ...  the 1040ez form, by contrast, takes just four hours out of a year. ... a total 6.1  billion hours for all taxpayers to handle their taxes, which it calculated by “ multiplying the number of copies of each form filed for tax year 2010 by the ...