Americans spend 6.1 billion hours on their taxes http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/05/pf/taxes/IRS_tax_study/
6.1 billion? i think thats far fetched. That means that every man woman and child(even though children dont pay taxes) all spend an average of over 19 hours EACH filling out their tax returns. Takes me maybe 1 hour to do my taxes, less if I do it online.