“The makers of TurboTax and other online systems spent millions lobbying last year, much of it directed toward a bill that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings.” A very good investigation by ProPublica about the incredible lobbying in the USA that tries to keep taxes as a juicy revenue source for some private companies.
▻https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it