As more and more people file their taxes online, the Santa Clara County Library District announced Wednesday it will stop carrying hard copy, paper tax forms beginning next month.
Libraries will continue to have reproducible federal tax forms that residents can photocopy, as well as public computers for printing forms and instructions, according to a District press release.
A valid Santa Clara County Library District card is required to use the computers, and printouts will be available at 15 cents per page, the relase states.
“With the overall decreasing use of paper forms, the reduction of paper tax forms in all of our libraries makes sense, environmentally and economically,” said Gilroy City Councilman Dion Bracco, the chair of the District’s Joint Powers Authority Board, in the release.
“This will help us to focus our limited staff and physical space on core library services.”
The District serves residents of Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Saratoga and the unincorporated area of Santa Clara County.
It includes two bookmobiles and an online library.
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