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Also, one might ask "why doesn't the IRS just send you a pre-filled copy of the forms, and you only correct them if they're wrong?".

The answer is "because Congress passed a law saying they can't".

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Doing the next step of the root cause analysis leads to "Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS hard enough that they passed a law, and the IRS conspired to change their procedures".

Except Intuit hasn't paid anywhere near enough in lobbying money to have that kind of effect. Grover Norquist is the last step in your root cause analysis.

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