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TurboTax maker Intuit spent millions in record lobbying blitz amid threats to tax prep industry
(www.opensecrets.org)
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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Wait. What's wrong with TurboTax? It's so easy. Why would anyone pay a human instead? Why would a human want to do any of this?
The point is that we shouldn’t have to do taxes ourselves in the first place. The IRS have the necessary numbers, they know what we owe or are owed. Intuit continuously lobby to keep the current system in place, while advertising itself as “convenient”, and it is, but only within the system they helped create and help maintain.
TurboTax lobbys the US Government heavily to keep free alternatives from existing. At one point in time, the IRS was going to allow everyone to be able to report their taxes directly via their website and Intuit and the rest of the tax preparation software developers moved heaven and earth to kill the legislation that would have allowed it.
So, to answer the question, there's nothing wrong with TurboTax except for the fact that it's run by a private company that charges you a fee for something that the federal government could operate for free. If you want to keep paying a 3rd party to send the IRS the information they already have, then the system works just fine.
The IRS launched a free direct file this year though that some taxpayers can use.
Oh wow, what the fuck? How can we have a straight government backed monopoly when we're teaching kids in school that we're specifically against that? Probably the same way I was compelled to plea guilty when we're teaching kids in school that we're specifically against that. It's just theatre.
What we do and what we tell our kids we do are often very different
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