americans. the irs could simply do their taxes for them. the irs already knows what you make, and they know what you're probably going to owe. so they do your taxes for you. they send you the tax return and they let you make any changes you want. if you want to make your taxes more complicated, great. if you don't and most people don't, you can simply sign off and that's it, you're done. austan goolsbee, an expert on taxes, he's run the numbers on this plan. he says having the irs auto-prepare taxes would save americans more than $2 billion in tax preparation fees a year, and 225 million hours in time spent preparing our taxes. imagine what we can do with all that time. if it sounds too good to be true, consider this. it's already how taxes work in denmark and sweden and spain. california did this as an experiment and 98% of the people surveyed from the experiment said they'd do it again. you know who likes this plan a lot? ronald reagan and president obama. there's legislation in congress right now that would make it law.