The IRS added ten new Tax Trails topics just last week, including such things as filing status, dependents, capital gains, interest and miscellaneous income. The Website had 3.8 million downloads through March, almost equal to the total for all of 1996. This automated system offers forms and instructions by return fax. It cannot receive faxes nor respond to regular phone calls. It has handled over a half million orders this filing season, ten times the total for all of last year.
Many public libraries stock basic tax forms and have other forms available for photocopying.