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Considering the standard deduction is default for many people now it does seem like filing taxes should just be a quick form on the IRS website.

For MOST people you take the standard deduction, and there's now only a handful of legit credits, maybe some small other types of income ... done.

Granted lots of people do NOT want it to be that easy.

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The alternative minimum tax is certainly not the default for most people; you have to make quite a lot for that to be relevant. Do you mean the standard deduction?

Yes my bad.

Standard deduction is great but this is the first year I had enough cash to bother parking it in a Money Market Fund instead of my bank's savings account and whew boy does that have an irritating tax process.

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