I LOVE Dave Barry’s humor.
I started using tax software 25 years ago when I went to all of the local libraries and couldn’t find the tax forms that I needed. I keep using it because the number of tax forms has increased and it costs me too much to send all of those forms in the mail. So, I kill three birds with one tax software package; I efile and don’t mail my returns anymore, I don’t need to locate the forms that I need to file and it identifies the forms that I need, and it does a better job anticipating next year’s tax debt than my spreadsheet. All and all, income tax is still theft.
My taxes are complex enough, that I use a CPA for this task. I assume he uses tax prep software. He efiles the returns.
I wonder if we will ever see major tax simplification. Perhaps politically, the incentive is too strong, for the politicians who write the tax laws, to encourage and subsidize certain behaviors with tax benefits, and discourage/penalize others, based on tax treatment of various financial activity.
Dave Barry always cracks me up.
One of my favorite is his column on fifty shades of grey...