[leathersoft]

Come on people, we need this!!

[rbanffy]

I find it surreal you even need to file taxes.

I mean, companies already tell the government how much they pay you and how much tax they withheld. Unless you need to claim back taxes because of, say, medical expenses or charitable donations, there should be no need for us to even be concerned with such things.

[mikestew]

And even for the deduction case, the standard deduction is now large enough that I'd be surprised if the percentage of those itemizing deductions vs. taking the standard deduction to be quite low double digits. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if it were single digits.

IOW, send me my Norwegian-style postcard with the amount I owe, and quit catering to corner cases. (Oh, wait, Intuit's profits probably aren't a corner case, eh?)

[Nihilartikel]

Yeah, but that would unfairly punish the citizens who are better able to optimize our intentionally byzantine code of deductions and write offs!

[sockaddr]

Yup. Having to take the time to manually file the taxes is itself a tax.

[toomuchtodo]

Quite a bit of US economic activity is middleman busywork. Tax prep, private insurers, excessive financialization of various forms, etc.