cause I got beef with the IRS

cause I got beef with the IRS, okay? I'm filing my taxes for 2023 and I get to itemize my taxes because I pay mortgage interest and it's more than the standard deduction, a bunch of transactions. But because I itemize my taxes, I also get to deduct either the state income tax or a sales tax. Now, I live in Washington, there's no state income tax. So I want to deduct my sales tax. The IRS offers two options to do this. Either you use a calculator where they just take your income where you live and then guess how much money you spend on sales tax that year. If you want to overrule their calculator, you can put in whatever you want in that form. and say, no, I've spent this much on sales tax in the year of 2023. But if you were to get audited, you then have to present them with paper receipts of everything you spent money on that year. That just doesn't make sense to me. Like, why is the IRS not up to date in 2024 now where they can just take credit card statements or something and just know how much you paid in taxes. Like, why do I have to keep paper receipts of every single thing that I spent money on this year and then submit that just in case I get audited and what keep that in my house and then if I don't get audited, I throw it away. and then start keeping it again for the next year. It just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, $2,000 a year on sales tax assumes that I only spent $10,000 this entire year on like taxable expenses. That's just not the case. I've spent way more than 10 grand this year. I can go into any personal finance management app and remove all the non-taxable categories and just see how much I've spent. But I can't overrule the IRS on this because I don't keep paper receipts of all my stuff.