And of course the IRS had been a paper-based organization, so it had to make a quick transition. And on the payment side, that was fairly easy to do because it already has an electronic solution in place called E.F.T.P.S., and all it did was really expand the functionality of that. However for return filing, it's a larger hurdle for the service to become electronic, so its first approach has been to go after individual filers because they're the largest number of filers, with 80 million to 90 million tax returns each year. And then business filing was the next step, with about 10 million to 20 million filings annually. Right now, it might be a little painful to get involved in it, but in five years, everybody will be e-filing their taxes.
Today there's a cost involved.
But I think the IRS has done a good job in building electronic return functionality for the individual. On the business side, it's more complicated because business tax returns are much more complex. There's a lot more information to be reported. So for business tax filers, they're generally going to have to pay a third party a fee for doing that. In some cases, it just depends.