Complication is a feature not a bug. You can't solve this until you solve the reason why the complication occurred in the first place (politicians need for cash

Complication is a feature not a bug. You can't solve this until you solve the reason why the complication occurred in the first place (politicians need for cash). Any simplification of the tax law will just slide back to the current mess as each lobby group buys the loopholes they want. If you want to fix the tax system you need to fix the political system's need for cash. One of the more interesting things about this US election season is that the population is starting to get this. I think the US Supreme Court were rather clever ruling that injecting unlimited cash into the political system was Ok as it has accelerated this process of voter education.