I wrote an article [1] a few years ago to vent about how messed up and backward the experience has been for especially foreign filers. The “free” options provided by commercial companies are as TFA states unusable by large portions of the population. Besides those, the IRS provides “free fillable forms online”, which looks like a scam website and also has many limitations (one of which, in my case, was that you must provide a US phone number).
It’s all beautifully messed up.
So there wouldn’t be this problem with Intuit if the government got their shit together. Why not spend efforts to improve the system rather than litigation? The answer? Lobbying.
This is all in stark contrast to the system which exists in Denmark, where I live, where taxes are all filed online and the government automatically fetches most information so that you mostly only need to review it and add deductions.
So there wouldn’t be this problem with Intuit if the government got their shit together. Why not spend efforts to improve the system rather than litigation? The answer? Lobbying.
This is all in stark contrast to the system which exists in Denmark, where I live, where taxes are all filed online and the government automatically fetches most information so that you mostly only need to review it and add deductions.
[1] https://medium.com/@syastrov/us-tax-system-a-fractal-of-bad-...