This seems like a marginal improvement at best. If your taxes are at all complicated, this likely won't be sufficient and you'll still be paying professionals.

This seems like a marginal improvement at best. If your taxes are at all complicated, this likely won't be sufficient and you'll still be paying professionals. If your taxes are fairly simple, you can already file for free without too much effort. I suppose there is an in-between group who may benefit from saving the $50-$200 for more advanced online self-filing. I've been that person many years in the past, but I could easily afford those fees. Better to have invested that $15 million in radical ways to simplify this entire insane(ly stupid) process.