The cleverly named 1040 form is the standard IRS federal tax template upon which 100,000,000-and-change Americans groan every year, as they seek to find gentle deductions to minimize the amount of dough they have to pay The Man. The 1040 form has brethren in the form of the 1040A, the 1040EZ, the 1040PC, and other incarnations guaranteed to haunt the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans everywhere.
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