Re: Why I Hate Filing My Taxes
by Anonymous
I wonder if the use of tax software actually increased the complexity of the tax code. Perhaps the fact that AMT was reaching a large swatch of the population would been addressed sooner if everyone was required to hire an accountant rather than buy a $50 program to figure it out. I feel like that 26-hours-for-tax-prep number has been around for a while, but as computers allowed us to do more complex math in that time, complexity increased. How close has the increasing complexity of filing taxes tracked the increasing use/availability of tax software? When it is so easy to plug #'s into a program and get an answer, is there any way to dial this back?
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