A top Internal Revenue Service official has admitted he doesn't do his own taxes.

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman says the tax code is too complex, so he gets someone else to prepare his returns. And he's not alone.

More than 80 percent of the American people get help doing their taxes, either through a tax preparer or tax software.

Shulman was asked how he could make filing easier.

"I don't write the tax codes. Congress writes the tax laws," he told C-Span.