Comment by senderista
12 hours ago
For the vast majority of US taxpayers, automating their taxes is feasible right now and the obstacles are political not technical.
12 hours ago
For the vast majority of US taxpayers, automating their taxes is feasible right now and the obstacles are political not technical.
I wouldn't even call it political. It's financial, and should be criminal. The people who are elected to represent us are just taking bribes and being paid off to allow corporations to screw us over.
I wouldn't even say "corporations" because honestly, it's just the one corporation that's keeping the US tax system mired in pointless, manual complexity: Intuit.
There is also a whole political line of thinking that making taxes easier makes them more palatable, so if you want to “starve the beast” at all costs you actually want tax filing to be as painful as possible.
H&R Block also.