I feel it’s designed to push you towards a tax preparer. More business protectionism that benefits the rich and drains regular people.

Yeah, us figuring out how much we owe then getting penalized if we miscalculate is a bull shit system.

Yes! The government should be required to have an electronic way to file your taxes for free. If people want to pay a tax preparing service, that’s fine, but a free option should be required by law. You shouldn’t have to pay your taxes and pay someone to submit them. Private companies clearly can’t be trusted with the free side, because they degrade it to try to upsell.