Taxes "Hello, and welcome to your annual taxation test. We have changed the rules this year, as we do every year, so make sure you get everything right, and no, we can't describe the rules changes to you or tell you where to find them. This year a SPECIAL new rule, if you happen to be confident or competent you can NO LONGER file your federal taxes for free, now you MUST pay a commercial organization to do it for you, because they bribed us. Remember that you have to do all of this perfectly, and if you get it wrong you will be liable to experience something called an "audit," which is where we scrutinize your financial records after pulling them all the way through your digestive system, backwards, all the while treating you like a criminal. Unless you ARE a criminal, in which case we elect you to run things. Good luck! Our crack staff of overworked, underpaid, reviled and downsized tax auditors are waiting to inspect any tax return flagged by our computers as being in any way unusual, and they won't be happy about that. And while you're working, remember, this could ALL be simplified, automated, and even applied to people who make more money than you, but we don't want to and at present you can't make us, so get going, there's a deadline!"