Meet the People Making it Harder for You to File Your Taxes

As tax day approaches, here's a thought: wouldn’t it be nice to get a pre-filled tax form from the IRS? All you would have to do is accept what the IRS says, make any necessary edits, or reject it in favor of your own filings, and be done with it.



Such a scenario is far from a novel idea. Return-free filing has been endorsed in the past by both President Ronald Reagan, as well as President Obama. In addition, such a system already exists in Denmark, Sweden, and Spain (who, should be not...