@JessTheUnstillJess👾 They’ve ripped away much the IRS funding and fired iirc close to a quarter of its workforce, plus replaced part of their code base with whatever DOGE cooked up, and then yanked around a bunch of tax law into very unclear terms (vibe legislating?) which will have to be legally interpreted. Oh, and drew down the Direct File program. All that on top of how complicated it was just last year. This is very much a deliberate attack on anyone who isn’t wealthy enough to hire it out to an office. Increasing the friction ordinary people experience bogs the system down to reduce inquiry into and prosecution of the rich before they can obliterate what remains of the justice system. You’re experiencing this accurately as an attack on your wellbeing, it’s that hard because they’ve made it that hard.