It isn't just Intuit, and it isn't just their $5 million in legal bribes. If it were simple to do income taxes, it would be tens of thousands of accounting indu

It isn't just Intuit, and it isn't just their $5 million in legal bribes. If it were simple to do income taxes, it would be tens of thousands of accounting industry jobs that would be cast aside. I suspect the lobbying money comes with that as part of the message. Leona Helmsley, as quoted by her housekeeper: "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes." She believed that and I suspect we have no idea the extent of this corruption, and very well could also be why the system is the way that it is. Corruption and tax avoidance is a right for the privileged, secured as a product they can buy. If this is all easy peasy and automated, how do you do clever obfuscation so you're avoiding taxes?