claim: americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. it costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually.
author: ron wyden
evidence_1: jun 20, 2016 ... americans will spend more than 8.9 billion hours complying with irs tax ... all in  all, tax compliance will cost the u.s. economy $409 billion this year. ... in 1955,  the internal revenue code was 409,000 words long. ... it's estimated that  taxpayers spend $19.6 billion on compliance efforts each year related to ...
evidence_2: americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. it costs us $163  billion to comply with our tax laws annually. — politifact oregon on saturday, ...
evidence_3: nov 16, 2011 ... “the complexity [of the tax code] costs us $430 billion a year.” ... the u.s. tax code , which yielded just $1.1 trillion last year, cost americans nearly ... businesses  spent 6.1 billion hours complying with tax filing requirements—and ... of  compliance in its 2010 annual report is a much more modest $163 billion.
evidence_4: apr 18, 2011 ... our tax code is one of the most complicated in the world. ... the average  american spends 26 hours on their taxes each year. this means that americans  will spend half of the typical work week or 6.1 billion hours in total on ... it costs  taxpayers approximately $163 billion annually to comply with the tax code.
evidence_5: jan 24, 2011 ... americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. it costs us $163  billion to comply with our tax laws annually. that is the ...