You're solving the wrong problem. The issue isn't that tax prep people are making an easy problem seem hard (and are thus ripe for an open source disruption). I

You're solving the wrong problem. The issue isn't that tax prep people are making an easy problem seem hard (and are thus ripe for an open source disruption). Intuit (and others) have a vested interested in making it actually hard. Filing taxes correctly while maximizing benefits is incredibly difficult. There are tons of ambiguous rules and loopholes and fuzzy boundaries and it changes all the time.