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Maybe so but to me it seems achievable. Lot's of other countries have such a system. Why would it be so much harder to achieve here?

Also it seems to me we don't have much to lose. Our choices were: pay intuit or give our personal information to creditkarma to do god knows what with. Now we don't even have that.

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Not only is it achievable. If I get it wrong they send it back. That means there is an automated audit system. That means we are arguing about who gets to own the front end form. There is no incentive for either side to make it simpler because it is all 'code' at this point. With a nice wizard in front of it. The interchange format is the 1040 form. They even have a special 1040 form for computers!

the 1040 is only the federal..

Outside of personal protection (financial and physical), one of the two largest political parties in the US actively tries to make government run programs operate as badly as possible so they can get rid of them in favor of private entities and get a tax break.

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