Republicans are up and down the line opposed to easy tax filing because they think it’ll make it easier for government to raise taxes if people have to manually do their taxes every year.
I think you meant to say it would make it harder to raise taxes if people had to do their returns manually. I also think you're mistaking the excuse offered by Republicans for the underlying reason. After all, if it were true then Republicans would be logically be opposed to any sort of electronic filing, whether offered from the IRS or by a third party.
I think you meant to say it would make it harder to raise taxes if people had to do their returns manually. I also think you're mistaking the excuse offered by Republicans for the underlying reason. After all, if it were true then Republicans would be logically be opposed to any sort of electronic filing, whether offered from the IRS or by a third party.