We really are becoming a paperless society these days! OK, we are at least when it comes to filing our taxes here in the US, anyway. The IRS has announced that most filers are using electronic means to take care of their taxes while fewer and fewer people are going with the paper route this time around.

The age of the luddite tax payer has passed with more than half of US punters sending in their returns via the internet for the first time.

Close to 66m of the 120m returns filed so far arrived at the IRS electronically. That total of e-filed returns marks an 11 percent increase over last year’s 59m electronic returns. The IRS is darn excited about the jump in electronic returns, saying federal workers are the happiest they’ve ever been due to the internet efficiency.

“I’d like to thank IRS workers, tax professionals and tax volunteers for putting in long hours during the tax season,” said IRS Commissioner Mark Everson. “Their hard work, coupled with the growth in electronic services, made this one of the best filing seasons we’ve ever seen.”

Everson would later become even more enamored with the filing season, upping its rating from “best” to “strong and smooth.” Then, he rightly outed paper filers as a type of backward, dying breed. [Read the rest]