Planet money just released an episode explaining why that doesn't happen: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/episode-760-tax-hero https://w

Planet money just released an episode explaining why that doesn't happen: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/episode-760-tax-hero https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis... tl;dr: All the infrastructure is in place and everybody loves the idea (Literally 99% approval in the test-run of 80,000 taxpayers); but Intuit (Makers of the TurboTax software, who get rich thanks to people's confusion and frustration), spent $28 million lobbying against it.