The commercialization itself isn't the problem, but that the data that the IRS already has on you isn't available for you, I guess?
If they made the data available to you, an open source program could take it and spit out your tax forms. The existence of commercial alternatives wouldn't hurt this workflow one bit.
Of course, the problem seems to be that those commercial alternatives come with considerable lobbying to make access hard. And from what I've heard, US taxes are so complicated, that it's hard to do them right.
If they made the data available to you, an open source program could take it and spit out your tax forms. The existence of commercial alternatives wouldn't hurt this workflow one bit.
Of course, the problem seems to be that those commercial alternatives come with considerable lobbying to make access hard. And from what I've heard, US taxes are so complicated, that it's hard to do them right.