You’re acting like the filing that would come from the government would be the final record and you wouldn’t be allowed to correct it, which is not at all what people are suggesting.

Plus, audits will still be a thing.

y u no be nice about it :(

All of those things you mentioned are edge cases which you would still be able to handle yourself if they auto filled everything for you.

I use an online tax service which scans my w2 and filles it out. It still gives me the option to edit stuff but I mostly just check to make sure things look good.

How would they know now? It’s the same answer. Stop being a dick.