Because it’s a gift to corporations at the expense of taxpayers.

Seeing as how the free filing system was shot in the head several times for no other reason but that it directly benefits tax payers, that’s not much of gift in comparison to the fact that tax payers will have to keep paying money anyway. If it’s any consolation, we might get a FOSS tax filer, which is still better then the current form we got.

1. I don’t believe that it would apply in this case, as tiktok isn’t the only video media sharing platform in the USA. If amazon was buying all of video media platforms, that would be cause for concern.
2. Yeah, there was. America also explicitly voted that they didn’t want fair competition at all. We’re just getting what we deserve.