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The 1040EZs were a since when I was in high school but still odd of they check anyway why do I still have to do it?
In the past few years we had some more deductions and I had to Google which numbers, forms, or lines I had to put stuff on it felt so damn intuitive to a point I started designing forms to be easier for people, gave up and just let my tax guy do it all from now on.
Oh no, absolutely the government should be compiling this shit for us, and we should only have to double check and sign it like "yep looks right to me"
I was just pointing out that the idea that any little mistake on your taxes will get you put in jail is a meme.
Pretty sure they already do compile a lot of it. But then we get to play the game of "guess their number" with legal penalties if you guess wrong, so TurboTax can use fearmongering and deception to get people to pay for their software and add-ons.
Intuit and H&R Block have lobbied into the millions of dollars over the years to ensure that our taxes work exactly this way.
To date I have never used either of their products and I never will. Fuck them. Now if only literally everyone else felt the same so that they could promptly go out of business…
IRS has free file forms
https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free
They'll only help if you have an AGI less than $73k. They built a whole system to help and don't let some people use it not because of more complex tax situations, but due to an arbitrary income limit.
They already compile it, they're just not allowed to show us because the tax companies donate a tiny percentage of their profits to political campaigns.