To be fair, usually your first couple of tax filings really are freebies. Chances are, you can file a 1040EZ online, and if you go through a software program it walks you through the whole thing. Put in the information from your W-2 (which most major companies allow you to import directly into your tax software of choice), click "no" on all the questions about whether you bought a house or got married or have any offshore bank accounts, and at the end of it you get a couple hundred bucks back.