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Well the IRS could do your taxes for you and send you a bill/confirmation for you to correct, but companies have lobbied to get an agreement put in place that t
by xellisx 9y ago
Well the IRS could do your taxes for you and send you a bill/confirmation for you to correct, but companies have lobbied to get an agreement put in place that this will never happen.
- chimeracoder 9y ago> Well the IRS could do your taxes for you and send you a bill/confirmation for you to correct, but companies have lobbied to get an agreement put in place that this will never happen. The difference between that and filling out a 1040EZ is negligible. It takes as long to write out a 1040EZ as it would to properly verify the information on one that's already filled out for you. For people who want to utilize the more complex deductions available - there's no way that the IRS could do that for you. Contrary to popular belief, they don't have sufficient information to do that until you give it to them, and quite frankly you wouldn't want them to have access automatically to all of that.
- JBlue42 9y agoThey do that though. The past two years I've filed online with their free forms. I knew that I was taking more allowances and would owe. They said "hey, you actually owe us this". And then I sent them a check.
- masonic 9y agothis will never happen This has been the case for many years already. The problem is, the IRS has no incentive to help minimize your tax. If you really have nothing to deduct, that might not be so bad, but I would have more faith in any of the existing free short-form filing services that already exist.