It's not just Intuit and H&R Block. A lot of us small business owners don't want the IRS knowing every detail of our businesses in order to just magically send us a pre-filled return each year.
The current tax system places responsibility on you, the investor, to tabulate all of your gains and losses, but it also gives you the freedom to invest in complex and unusual transactions like coins in the first place. Don't be so quick to assume you could give up the one without giving up the other, were it not for those pesky TurboTax lobbyists.
The current tax system places responsibility on you, the investor, to tabulate all of your gains and losses, but it also gives you the freedom to invest in complex and unusual transactions like coins in the first place. Don't be so quick to assume you could give up the one without giving up the other, were it not for those pesky TurboTax lobbyists.