Only in a few select shit democracies can a company push back on a government entity trying to do something so basic as to provide decent tax filling mechanisms

no shit and 99% of the time their software is just doing data entry but they want any “free” software to be such that you have to input it in manually. its such a scam in this day and age.

I’m from Brazil and a little confused. What I found is that people in the US pay for a software that simplify the process of filing taxes. Free options would be more difficult or inconvenient. But I also read it is already possible to file taxes for free, as people are eligible, which I can’t wrap my head around.

Here, as fast as I can remember, the only software comes from the government, from the time of floppy disks (provided free of charge) and Java. You can always pay a company to do that for you, but it’s so simple for the majority that we are basically consenting with the use or validating the information they already had.

They act like they own peasants and daddy Sam let’s them