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TurboTax parent company Intuit spent millions in a record lobbying blitz amid government scrutiny and threats to the tax prep industry.

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  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Wouldn’t it be wild if the government just…sent us our refund or our bill? Because they know how much taxes we owe or how much they owe us without needing to play the stupid fucking “gather all your forms” and put it into the right fields game.

    That would also completely solve this problem by eliminating the need for turbo tax to exist at all.

    • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 个月前

      For the very rich, its extremely hard to know what they own, filing taxes allows them to hide all the details.

      • max@feddit.nlEnglish
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        10 个月前

        So your government could do what the commenter above suggested for 99% of the population. Got it.
        Because that’s what they do in my country. Your income is pre-filled, and most people don’t need to do anything other than double check it and click submit. If you want to get tax breaks for edge cases like uncovered medical care, extra schooling, travel costs as a freelancer, etc., you just follow the mostly easy steps and fill that in.

        • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          10 个月前

          I want the rich to be taxed; the system is broken bc it allows for loopholes. 100% should just get a bill.

          • max@feddit.nlEnglish
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            10 个月前

            One doesn’t have to exclude the other. I sense the irony in saying this, being Dutch (whose country is considered a tax haven for the rich and corporations unfortunately), but we don’t have to pay for tax software at least. Worst case, you’ll pay for a tax advisor/accounted if you have a really complicated situation with shit like alimony and wish to squeeze every last cent from it.

    • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Aren’t those all part of the Intuit lead coalition, the Free File Alliance, which kept lobbying against the IRS creating their own free tax filing tool among other issues?

      Note: Intuit and H&R Block left the coalition in 2021, after a no competition from IRS rule was lifted and the IRS announced making their own free tax filing tool.