[clairity]

so just stop using turbotax, h&r block, taxact, etc. try https://www.freetaxusa.com/ or any other decent competitor not trying to monopolize or regulatorially capture the market. for simple returns, just doing it by hand and mailing it in is easy enough too. vote with your feet.

[kaitai]

I used to be able to do a return "by hand" (fine, using a spreadsheet). But now between the health insurance stuff and the child tax credit there is a whole raft of additional forms that did not even exist just a few years back.

[beej71]

If you don't anticipate your tax situation will change for a few years, you can get a professional tax preparer to do it one year and then copy the process yourself subsequent years.