H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

Re:H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Fi... by moorhosj on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:50PM (#18962503)

Bizarre to see this type of comment on a technology-focused site. Turbo Tax can figure it out, but the government can’t?

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Re:H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Fi... by pfisch on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:36AM (#18976174)

Turbo Tax is incentivized to maximize your savings. The government is incentivized to do the opposite.

It's not that they can't. It's that eventually someone will be in charge that will decide they shouldn't.

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Re:H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Fi... by moorhosj on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:20AM (#18977843)

This might be true if you view the government as adversarial. If you view the government as a service provider for citizens I don’t think it holds water.

Your statement could easily be flipped. Turbo Tax is incentivized to keep the tax code as complex as possible, the government is incentivized to do the opposite.

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