Americans spend 6 billion hours a year doing their taxes

That's equivalent to 3 million people working full-time, year-round

Only 10% of Americans do their own taxes.
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Yes, billion. That's 6,000,000,000 — nine zeros. The equivalent to three million people working full-time, year-round, as the AP points point. And it's all because of our extremely complicated and constantly changing tax code.

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