the billion dollar tax prep industrial complex as a group spends the most lobbying dollars on tax policy -- in particular, suppressing any effort eliminate or even reduce filing complexity -- and lobbying ops like theirs don't happen because their service's value to tax payers speaks for itself
I do wonder on the point of making it complicated on purpose though. Like is there actual evidence of that? Government naturally makes all sorts of stuff overly complicated all on its own.
That's been answered in at least one other reply
> I do wonder on the point of making it complicated on purpose though. Like is there actual evidence of that?
- https://apnews.com/article/irs-free-file-tax-returns-391ded1... - https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
> Government naturally makes all sorts of stuff overly complicated all on its own.
By all means let me put a couple of things aside so I can debate this corny gospel for hours n' hours ...