[cheeselip420]

Any government bureaucracy with forms and worksheets should be 100% replaced with software. Change my mind. I do think api.irs.gov would be terrifying though given the ACA debacle...

Note that I'm not saying we don't need agents or enforcement or anything like that - I mean the paper-pushing, form-filing bullshit that eats up countless hours of time.

[tonfreed]

In theory yes, but every time I see a department trying to do this they inevitably hire a big four firm to do it for them and waste billions to get an inadequate application delivered 3 years late that no one uses

[boppo1]

I use Free fillable forms + instructions. There are too many edge cases for software to catch. If they just cleaned up the freefillableforms.com ui to look like it's from this decade and perhaps auto-find relevant instructions, it would be the best possible tax experience.