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your political system is already based on legalized bribery and this is where you draw the line? lmao. Lobbying has destroyed america for a century.

Anyone else starting to think since Trump likes Putin maybe he too would like to gather all of the nations wealth for himself and his leeches. Seems like they'll get all the money and kick backs and business and we're left with even less, causing us to work more and get less.

Then stop accepting wealth in your country. You accumulate the capital of the whole world inside your country and then expect them to be there for any other reason than to control the policy there?

Make it make sense

is there a fact check on this? seems wild to me. wonder what the maga cult defense is on this one.

Intuit has been doing this for a long time, just in case anyone was wondering why $1 million seems like a low bribe. And it goes beyond preventing you from filing your taxes for free, with one of their goals being to make it as much of a pain in the ass as possible, so you are too frustrated to do it yourself.

This if from a 2019 Pro Publica article:

But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made tax filing simple and free for most citizens.

For more than 20 years, Intuit has waged a sophisticated, sometimes covert war to prevent the government from doing just that, according to internal company and IRS documents and interviews with insiders. The company unleashed a battalion of lobbyists and hired top officials from the agency that regulates it. From the beginning, Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while stifling it in Washington. Indeed, employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be “compromise without integrity.”

Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier — such as creating a free government filing system or pre-filling people’s returns with payroll or other data the IRS already has. “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” reads a confidential 2007 PowerPoint presentation from an Intuit board of directors meeting. The company’s 2014-15 plan included manufacturing “3rd-party grass roots” support. “Buy ads for op-eds/editorials/stories in African American and Latino media,” one internal PowerPoint slide states.

1 million to make filing taxes annoying af, well I'm not filing anything again

It's a little late now, but don't forget that FreeTaxUSA is free for federal and cheap for state. Also much less annoying to use than Intuit TurboTax. They don't do those fake loading animations like "checking the best deal!" As if a computer can't do like a billion of those a second.

Intuit ~~donated~~ invested $1million

Well that is just a tip of the iceberg.

What do u think his digital currency was for?

Corpos buy currency, he sells his coin, he does whatever corpos want, done.
Corpos write off as failed investment, Trump gets paid.

All digital currencies are for some shit like this - fraud.

every time this comes up i am flabbergasted.

this year was my most complicated tax filing yet since i was involved in a bankruptcy, switched jobs, bought a house, contracted work on the house which was eligible for tax credit, and got an inheritance within the span of a few months. it took me almost 20 minutes to do, which was basically only because the tax agency don't package their various calculators in the pre-filled form and i had to double-check the credit thing.

it drives me mental, then i hear about "tax month" and i feel it could be worse.

A million dollars is all it takes to buy whatever laws you want? That's a really good deal for Intuit.