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Re:H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making Tax Fill... by smnrchrds on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:28PM (#13923759)
We (almost) have this in Canada. CRA (our version of IRS) has an Auto-fill [0] option allowing the tax preparation software to import most commonly-used data after authorization. There are some good free tax preparation software, my favourites being SimpleTax (online, web-based) and StudioTax (offline, with option to file digitally or print the completed forms for paper filing). It typically takes me less than 15 minutes to file my taxes.

[0] https://help.simpletax.ca/questions/how-to-use-afr

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Re:H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making Tax Fill... by redthrow on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @03:04PM (#13925176)
SimpleTax.ca is great. I think they were initially run by just 4 people (Accountant, Designer, Programmer, and Sales).
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Re:H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making Tax Fill... by suter on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:35AM (#13931739)
Three of us, actually: product manager/designer, non-practicing tax lawyer, and developer. :)
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