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US taxes are objectively more annoying than most countries' and attempts to simplify the process are stymied by people with political axes to grind (e.g. Grover Norquist) and for-profit tax prep firms that stand to lose lots of money: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...

Things might finally be shifting. In recent years, the IRS has introduced its own software that will handle most taxpayers' basic situations.