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Re:FSF Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software by jjoonathan on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:25PM (#35706271)
Other countries have this figured out, but I guess it just must be impossible in the USA. Thank God we have Intuit to help us!

No, Intuit's hands are not clean in this, and while corporate taxes might be intrinsically complicated (the information does have to enter the system somewhere), personal taxes are largely not.

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Re:FSF Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software by nonethewiser on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:45PM (#35706533)
How would you simplify it? The complexity tends to come from rules that create opportunities not to pay taxes. I think any simplification will hurt some tax payers who will fight it out of their own self interest.
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