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The IRS doesn’t know how much you owe. You may choose to file in different ways, have side gigs, spend money on deductible or credit-eligible expenses, or qualify for certain breaks. It’s your choice to depreciate or carry over certain items. Only you know that your spare room was rented for 5 months or the cost basis for the bitcoin you sold.
if you work one job and have no complications like that - the 1040EZ is what you’re asking for. But still not the government’s role to tell you or sign your name to it.
They could send people "simple returns" where all they have to do is sign it. Most people would fall into this category. Ronald Regan even had this idea.
Trump killed that project https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/11/12/trump-kills-irs-direct-file-what-now
That's not what that was, but it was free and I used it, it was great