vitasite's are volunteers who give up their time to help taxpayers by preparing their returns for free and they are throughout the country and many sites operate throughout the years because some people get extensions or some even do back years, past year returns and this is really, they are very dedicated people and weare so fortunate that people are willing to give up their time to do it . so the question, the irs gives them software to do. what happened with the 1040 this year is that the treasury department mandated that the irs redesign the iconic 1040 form. and they wanted to get it all on a postcard size sheet of paper, namely a half a sheet of an 8 and a half by 11 and what that ended up is that instead of having about two pages, front and the back, we ended up with six schedules that were halfpage. some of ulthe schedules, schedule sex only had three or four lines on it so i've tried to figure out how many trees we have destroyed in just printing out copies of returns, even if you file digitally but what happens with your software is if you have your 1040, just a simple page,