Actually in Brazil the government has been providing tax-filling software for the last 20 years, and for its purposes it is quite good. If you just get a wage

Actually in Brazil the government has been providing tax-filling software for the last 20 years, and for its purposes it is quite good. If you just get a wage and don’t do anything too complex in your financial life like flipping houses, owning multiple companies, filling your yearly tax returns is a 10 to 20 minutes affair. Also, the instant payments network that you can use to send money from any bank to any bank in seconds from your cell phone, the PIX, is government software. Also, I am a small company owner and I can access a lot of government web applications online using a SSO with my optional digital certificate, or I can login into them by using my banks identity services as an oauth provider. No SMS funky business. If anything, it is the private banks, that while in my experience have far better software than American banks, that is behind. I, for one can use the same digital certificate that I use for fiscal purposes to access my vaccination certificates, but I can’t use yet on most banks. Of course there is a lot of government software that is basically enterprise software, bad software, but a lot of it, and usually the ones that I need to use more frequently are pretty good. They may not follow the latest flat design fashions, but they are accessible, ease to use, responsive, safe and fit for their purposes. And mind you, we are talking about Brasil, not exactly a model of good governance.