You and most of the rest of the US; how would you even educate the population about this massive change quickly enough? Computers have made much paperwork cheaper and faster but this was simply absurd, a perfect example of doing the cost/benefit analysis and simply assuming the cost of paperwork is either a flat zero, or that one can account for the cost of paperwork solely by considering the cost to the government as if that's the only entity that matters.

I think that tax preparation services were salivating at the prospects. Mine sent a letter with our tax prep organizer explaining the change and offering their services to prepare them for me.

I agree that it is absurd.

That's pretty much how I felt too. Imagine every single business ISP and cell phone provider in the country receiving a 1099 from every single customer. This requirement was pretty much the single dumbest thing ever codified into law.

I think this applied to unincorparated providers only. But I agree, this was a very intrusive expansion of reporting requirement for taxpayers. Thank goodness they are getting rid of it.

I was going to handwrite them all so OCR wouldn't work effectively.