> 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

> 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.