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IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Freefilefillableforms.com
Free for everyone, has links to all the necessary forms and literature, etc. Linked by the IRS on their how to file webpage.
You do NOT have to pay a service, despite tax preparation services acting like you have to.
It definitely involves a lot of reading and work, though.
As always, the tradeoff that money buys, as in almost every case, is time.
Once you do it the first time though it's pretty easy to do it the next time.