Electronic filing (efile) is the most popular method of filing taxes, developed by the IRS nearly four decades ago in 1986. Over one hundred million personal income taxes are filed each year.
Electronic filing involves formatting the data of a tax return into an electronic code that transmits to the IRS and certain states via secure encrypted Internet connection.
FileYourTaxes.com became the first company to successfully utilize internet transmission to service centers, allowing for tax returns to be filled with the California Franchise Tax Board & California Board of Equalization.
Beginning during the 2011 tax filing season, the IRS adopted Modernized efile (MeF) as the filing mode of choice for the personal income tax efilings.