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The IRS can reject my efiled return if the information I enter doesn't match what they have on their end. So why not just save me the hassle of entering a bunch of data if they already have it?

This seems like such an obvious no brainer that could save millions of people hours of frustration. That's why I'm 100% sure it'll never happen.

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Yeah. As part of buying a house a few years ago, I prematurely drained a couple of small 401k accounts from previous employers to pay for some repairs. That was in Feb-March. Then a year later when I was doing my taxes, I had received the appropriate 1099-whatever for only one of them - I either lost the other, or it didn't get forwarded to my new address- I don't know. And by that time, I had forgotten all about it. The following year (2015) I wound up getting whacked for under-reporting my income in 2014 (house purchase was 2013). It's annoying that since the IRS knew about this (the 401k company had reported it to them, of course), but I had long since forgotten. There must be a better way.

But who will provide employment to the newly idle folks as H&R Block, Intuit(TurboTax) and others? And what would happen to their campaign contributions? And what about the primary opponents who will lambaste this million dollar expansion of the IRS?

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