> .. because they lobby to keep taxes complicated? No, because they lobby to keep filing taxes complicated. Yes, taxes most likely will always be complicated,

> .. because they lobby to keep taxes complicated? No, because they lobby to keep filing taxes complicated. Yes, taxes most likely will always be complicated, but if there's no artificial barriers to filing (like in most of the rest of the developed world), there can be real competition in the tax-solutions-software space and most likely there'll also be acceptable open-source solutions that can be used for free.