Nobody can possibly get used to this ridiculous, ever changing tax code. But, you are right, since the lawyers run it to their advantage, like they run all branches of government to their advantage, nothing will change. The time just for compliance costs 100 of billions. After spending 20 hours gathering and compiling paper, records, making lists, etc, I still was forced to pay my tax preparer, $595.
I do my own taxes and I ALWAYS mail it in. Snail mail.
BTW, we’re on the same page.
I’ll throw this out, though: When I was a kid in the 60’s, I believed that eventually robots would make everything and even robots would make and repair the robots, which begged the question, what will people do?
I think this is the answer. Lots and LOTS of jobs exist because of government make-work. There is a reason people call SOX the “full IT employment act”. BAsically we are all like ants just running around doing stuff and getting paid for it. And often it is me taking a pebble to you for money, and then you taking the pebble to me for money, each of us getting paid by the other for our work, with the government getting a cut, which they use to pay others that do the same thing.
It’s why most JOBS are so unfulfilling. The purpose is to make money, and that’s about it. For the most part, only the self employed are truly happy in their work, and even they, often, are only in it for the money. What I LOVE doing (clearing my property, mowing the lawn, cutting firewood, building a deck, a chicken run, etc.) doesn’t pay. I work at a cubicle to actually finance my life.
And I’ve worked in tax departments of large corporations. :)