[Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): The U.S. tax code must be simplified] Golden Finance reported that the official X account of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tweeted: In 1955, the U.S. tax code had less than 1.5 million words. Today, the number of words has exceeded 16 million. Due to this complexity, Americans spend a total of 6.5 billion hours each year preparing and filing taxes. This must be simplified.