Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 90
I'm in Canada and we've had a very gradual digitization of taxes. It's not as complete as some other countries, but I was really impressed at how it progressed.
It started many years ago where your work would 'upload' your tax slips to the government website. It was very basic. But functional.
Then tax software, like TurboTax gained the ability to connect to the government website and download all your tax forms. More and more stuff started to be upload to the government site. Today, even my stock trades are uploaded to the government as I use a major brokerage.
Today my taxes are literally sign in to turbo tax, authorize so it can download the tax info from the government website, and I basically submit. Only thing I need to do is add donations and other stuff. There are 'free options' to file.
It's not a huge deal for the IRS to have built it's own software. I personally don't think that's a good model and prefer the model Canada did. The government defined the protocol to file taxes and receive tax slips. Then the actual programs to do taxes is left to the market. Most of the market players offer a free filing option for low-income people anyways.