There was a proposal to just have the California tax authority just send out prefilled tax forms for you to look over, sign and send back with a check or info o

There was a proposal to just have the California tax authority just send out prefilled tax forms for you to look over, sign and send back with a check or info on where to send your refund, but then Intuit and anti tax groups (who were afraid that making it easier to pay taxes would make people less angry at paying taxes) lobbied hard enough to kill it.