Income Tax Ohio

People nationwide may be able to file their income tax returns by telephone--without doing any of their own calculations--and get their refunds mailed within three weeks if an experiment in Ohio proves successful. Since Jan. 10, about 5,000 taxpayers in Ohio have filed their taxes by calling a 24-hour 800 number and punching information from their W-2 forms into their touchtone phones. The IRS computer connected to phone lines automatically calculates their payment or refund.

People nationwide may be able to file their income tax returns by telephone--without doing any of their own calculations--and get their refunds mailed within three weeks if an experiment in Ohio proves successful. Since Jan. 10, about 5,000 taxpayers in Ohio have filed their taxes by calling a 24-hour 800 number and punching information from their W-2 forms into their touchtone phones. The IRS computer connected to phone lines automatically calculates their payment or refund.