The Internal Revenue Service is moving ahead with a plan to build its own free tax filing program, known as Direct File, announcing Tuesday that a pilot version will be available to some taxpayers in 13 states next year.
Armed with an influx of new money approved by Democrats last year, the IRS is conducting a major overhaul of its operations – despite continued threats from Republicans to cut future funding and even abolish the agency altogether.
Eventually, the IRS tax filing system could serve as an alternative to private tax preparation companies like H&R Block and Intuit’s TurboTax.
IIRC that’s what the income tax was supposed to be like … it wasn’t even supposed to be an “income tax”, it was supposed to be a tax on the employer side based on the amount of money they’re paying their employees. Somehow it ended up being that employees individually have to deal with the headaches and your actual take home salary isn’t obvious.