Is it? That's how taxes work in pretty much every other country aside from the US. They send you a proposed tax and ask you to check if it looks correct. It'

Is it? That's how taxes work in pretty much every other country aside from the US. They send you a proposed tax and ask you to check if it looks correct. It's just that in the US, companies like Intuit lobby to keep the tax code as complicated as possible so they can sell tax filing software. Americans have grown up with complicated tax codes, so that's all they know. They don't realize it can be better.