If you are going to use online tax service, like TurboTax or TaxAct or others

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5. I still paper file

It takes 10 months to get a refund but I avoid the hassles of e-filers. If I did use e-file, I think they said I get a summary but not the actual forms filed, plus if you have a lengthy 1099, you can't add them in digital form (last time I looked, which was a few years ago) so you have to print them and send them to a special PO Box in TX. And by the way, what is it with the IRS and places to send your returns? They had about 11 regions at one time, now about 4 mailboxes. It changes every year. KC and UT and Hartford seem durable, but others change. Yet taxpayer advocates remain somewhat local.