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Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online
(www.rawstory.com)
That’s less efficient
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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It fits in perfectly with the real name: Department of Government Enshitification
OpenSecrets, 02/06/2024 - "TurboTax maker Intuit spent millions in record lobbying blitz amid threats to tax prep industry"
This is the great sell-off of America. Anyone who knows what happened to Russia over the course of the 2000s know what's coming is not good.
I already got my direct file in and it says I should get the return soon so uh, here's hoping
This is just what the redhats voted for in order to lower the price of eggs.
See, I was told this was the result of Midwestern Muslims caring too much about a genocide in Palestine. :-/
I think people put too much weight on the idea of Presidential Vote as people lining up to vote on these sweeping socio-economic reforms. They have to recognize it as a much simpler - almost libidinal - endorsement of The Daddy Party versus The Mommy Party. The choice was never about how efficiently one files their income taxes (a big chunk of Republicans want the entire IRS abolished anyway) or whether the Treasury trades in Bitcoin. It was just whether one personally identified with Trump or Harris as personifications of their political Id.
Trump is literally no one's daddy and you should be IP banned for implying it until you repent of your sins
Would be nice if he fucked the system enough that they couldn’t even accept payments - for the first time I owe federal taxes this year, about $300+.
The rich do not pay taxes. You have therefore been identified as a poor. Please remain still for reeducation/organ harvesting.
It's so nice for Musk to think of the TurboTax and HR Block shareholders.
/s
Avoiding specifics on what he is doing, what the hell is he doing to deserve his compensation at Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter? He’s too busy in DC.
I think most everyone suspected this, but being a CEO is a part-time job.
The elites long told us they were the hardest-working Americans.
Don't forget neuralink and boring.
Don’t file taxes then
Write your tax return by hand and mail it in. The IRS downsized years ago and got rid of the people who read these things. They will try to OCR it and have a computer review it, but if there are issues then surely a human will need to look at it.
Would be a shame if everyone filed taxes in a way that was terribly inconvenient for them.
In theory, that could be the goal. Cripple the government by choking revenue.
In practice, this is not what most people use to file taxes, particularly those who pay substantial amounts. More importantly, those taxes are mostly paid through paycheck withholdings. Most people get tax refunds by filing, or if they came up short through the year they only pay a small amount through this system.
So it happens to create a backdoor regressive tax via over payments and refundable credits that go unclaimed?
Sounds about right when the cruelty is the point.
So cut off nose to spite face just to own the libs?
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