Completely agree. Tax preparation is actually work the government should pre-fill. Australia does this. You can do your taxes online free and/or get an accounta

Completely agree. Tax preparation is actually work the government should pre-fill. Australia does this. You can do your taxes online free and/or get an accountant or an army of accountants if your affairs are that complex. Frankly, the government should do the initial assessment for you generated automatically from the many, many existing surveillance systems already in place. They are watching all financial transactions and you might as well assume they are. To even imply otherwise, and I've seen other comments say they shouldn't / don't have this already in place... even when social media companies are slurping data every way they can... seems absurd. All that said, you should go through each item and correct their mistakes. Those matching systems aren't perfect.