If you use a paper form to file your Arizona taxes, as about 600,000 people do, filing is about to get a bit more difficult. Until now, people who filed a tax return on paper the year before, automatically got new forms and instructions in the mail. But Sean Laux of the Arizona Department of Revenue says, no more.

“It's become a cost issue for the agency as more and more people are filing through third parties or e-filing, it just made more sense to encourage e-filing,” Laux said

That encouragement means if you want to keep using paper to file your state tax form, you’ll have to get the form online, go to the Department of Revenue to pick one up or use the master book at the public library, where the forms can be printed at your own expense.  

Laux said it’s easier for the department to process forms that are filed online but acknowledges the change could create issues for people who don’t own computers and printers, but the agency feels access shouldn’t be a problem.