Generally speaking, when there is a question like this and there's a yes-or-no alternative, if a person fails to answer that it would be considered a no. Therefore, we would continue to process the tax return, whether or not the individual filled that out. It would be very difficult otherwise. You can imagine people who are filing by paper not responding. We'd be in a difficult position not to be able to process the tax return.
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