[pinkythepig]

There are already affordable alternatives. The people still using turbotax are the same people that spend 0 time looking into alternatives or there is some import feature that an opensource platform realistically would not have the manpower to replicate. Freetaxusa is $15 at a minimum (state fee) and $50ish at the max if you opt into everything. UI isn't loaded with fake loading screens, and they only try to upsell maybe 2 or 3 times during the whole process. My parents complain about turbotax every year and every year I tell them about alternatives... But they still won't switch because 'its what they know'.

[tomc1985]

FreeTaxUSA made me manually input my stock transactions last year, via a paper PDF I had to print and mail separately. For most situations it is probably fine but its investments support seemed limited.

[sjg007]

You have to update these things anyway in turbo tax and hr block. 90% have the wrong adjusted basis.

[pertymcpert]

Only if they're RSUs.

[wardedVibe]

There is the summary option, though I'm unsure about when that is or isn't legal

[pinkythepig]

Why would an open source solution improve on that though? If anything, that would be way lower on their priority list as anyone doing large numbers of investments would (should?) have money to pay for a nicer UX solution and probably would want to, as the risk of an audit is a bigger 'cost' than $50-80 in filing fees.

The sheer number of changes that the Tax code makes every year would be hard enough to keep up with for an open source project, let alone making integrations with all of the brokerages to make this process less painful.

[jandrese]

Turbotax did the same thing, at least a few years ago when I used it last.