Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee that oversees the IRS, thinks the IRS should write its own version of TurboTax(c) and make it available free of charge on the IRS website.  Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) agrees.

Of course, neither Senator mentioned that IRS software will, of necessity, only allow the IRS interpretation of the tax laws.

And neither Intuit nor H&R Block have commented on the proposal.

Yet.