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[winterbadger]

Anyone gotten their federal tax form yet? My state tax form showed up ages ago, and I (miraculously) have had all my W-2s and 1099s for ages, but no 1040.

If it doesn't arrive this week, I'll just download the PDFs...

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[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

According to my coworker who was complaining about this a couple weeks ago, the feds are no longer sending out paper copies. You can call and get them to send them, but they're not automatically doing it any longer.

[winterbadger]

According to my coworker who was complaining about this a couple weeks ago, the feds are no longer sending out paper copies.

Apparently not! It would have been nice of them to tell us!

from Vindy.com (it's not even in mainstream news!)

Already a week into February, some people may have noticed their tax forms still haven’t arrived in the mail.

They won’t be coming anytime soon, either.

That’s because this year, the Internal Revenue Service has decided not to mail out tax booklets, which normally come with instructions and corresponding forms, instead pushing citizens toward filing taxes online.

It’s not too much of a change, however, as only 8 percent of filers received the packets in 2010. Those who filed paper returns last year should have received a postcard in October explaining how they could obtain the paper forms in 2011, according to the IRS’ website.

I don't recall getting any such postcard, but since my mail carrier makes a habit of hiding postcards and letters in coupon circulars and inside catalogs and magazines, I might have missed it.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Nope, we never got anything either.

I can appreciate wanting to not waste paper, but they need to do a better job of letting people know!!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

You can get the forms as pdf documents here: http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

I came on the say what everybody else beat me to: no fed forms in the mail anymore. I always download the pdf versions, fill them out, print and sign them, and mail them to the IRS. (The e-file thing is a pain, IMO, and I'm too cheap to buy TurboTax when I can figure it out myself.)