It's honestly pretty awful that tax companies exist when the IRS could hire programmers to set up a free competitor to TurboTax or TaxAct very easily.

And, as the flat tax folks tell us constantly, we could drop the entire industry and 90+% of the IRS if we just simplified the tax code. That one's more contentious, but I don't understand why the IRS doesn't spend $500k to develop this. They could even charge $10 a pop and make the money back in a year. Maybe even become the first profitable government agency.