"Killing TurboTax" is essentially a meme until we meaningfully simplify the tax code. There is no software development team on earth who could catch up with the full capabilities of TurboTax without some sort of fundamental shift in the business. I really hate to say this as someone who makes a living out of it, but dealing with the current amount of complexity in the tax code with a piece of software that a non-expe…
> There is no software development team on earth who could catch up with the full capabilities of TurboTax This is obviously false. The IRS software handles everything TurboTax does and more. As does the software that professional accountants use, such as ATX Also: TurboTax's many retail competitors like HR Block.
Agreed. I suspect an open-source competitor could be much better than all of these if organized well.