Speaking generally, but the IRS as an institution would love to be able to move to automated tax filing. The thing that is blocking that happening is intense l

Speaking generally, but the IRS as an institution would love to be able to move to automated tax filing. The thing that is blocking that happening is intense lobbying by intuit (and a few others) plus anti-tax groups. See https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax... for what was probably that best quick summary from about 10 years ago.