[QuikAccount]

> However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess.

Very much worth mentioning that companies like Intuit spend money hand over fist each year to keep the tax code complicated.

[HighPlainsDrftr]

I very much agree with that statement. It's been a decade ago since I read the article about this - and I'll try to fine and post it after I post what I read.

It costs federal taxpayers around $500 billion dollars a year to file their taxes.

Why can't that be more efficient? That is a hell of alot of money that could be handed back to the taxpayers - or added to the federal budget.

Just to live, people are paying part of that. Just to be incorporated, corps are paying that. Just to file paperwork - and have someone cover it for you.

What if we could use that money to start focusing on solving cancer? Mental health issues. Instead - we pay that money and all we get is some paper that goes through a 1960's mainframe eventually (which nobody understands the IRS mainframes anymore), and risk having them just stress us out more. That doesn't help anyone.

It's a mess to get into. It's a mess if your successful. I'm not so sure this isn't a mechanism to suppress parts of our population (or all of it).