IRS Direct File

ucbalumnus
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Video is TLDW.

But there are two big reasons:

1. In the US, government subsidies of almost anything except for things for people without money are implemented as tax deductions, credits, special rates, special income classes, etc., making the income tax system more complicated. The likely motivation is to make them politically harder to repeal (repealing looks like “raising taxes” instead of “cutting wasteful spending”).

2. The tax preparation industry obviously wants its cut, and has considerable lobbying and marketing power (as eventually mentioned in the video).