Tax returns in general should be much easier to complete than last year.Many more people will be using the standard deduction rather than going through the extra steps required to itemize. The roughly doubling of the standardized deduction, limitations placed on deductibility of state and local taxes and elimination of some miscellaneous deductions will drive filers to the standardized deduction.Raising the Alternative Minimum Tax exemption will dramatically reduce the number of filers who will be affected by AMT again making filing easier.Those changes reduced my tax preparation time by 50%.