I've never used a company to file my returns and might never. So my frustrations are self-inflicted. However, that doesn't mean the whole thing isn't ridiculous. I just loathe going through all the microcalculations and finding this form and that form. It's not complicated, it's convoluted. It's made complicated on purpose. The worst part is knowing that the idiots in office are going to squander our money anyway. The IRS needs to be drastically reduced, among numerous other agencies