Tax forms for 2006 filings

With tax filing time fast approaching, more folks are looking for tax forms. The IRS no longer ships the library piles of forms or printable form books the way it once did. Today, the IRS provides all of these forms through its website in downloadable and printable pdf files.

The most commonly used forms may be downloaded directly from their home page's lefthand sidebar; they have a full directory of all of their publications and forms; and there is also a table from which you may select the specific form or instruction booklet you want (hint: they are in numerical order by form number, so you may need to scroll quite some distance down the list to find such forms as the 1040). The forms page also includes links to directions for downloading, printing, and filling in their forms.

To open or print files of the pdf format, if you use a Windows-based computer you must also have a copy of one of the free readers for this file type, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader.

If you do not have access to a printer, you may print IRS forms from the library's public-use computers using our printer at the usual charge of $.10 a page. We also have a photocopier, for which we charge $.10 a page as well.