How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by toomuchtodo on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:35PM (#19405607)

The same amount of work that goes into verification systems to cross check your manual entry against all of your financial data they’re ingesting from payroll, investment firms, and other data providers.

It’s asinine to think the IRS should not be in the business of calculating your tax liability and providing you a friendly way to square up, free of charge, when they’re already doing most of the effort required (and have spent the government funds to do so).

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by ghostofmycat on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:40PM (#19405635)

Isn't the whole idea that it's a sort of verification? We propose what we made and what we owe, and another entity has their own proposal of what you made and what you you owe.

I'm just spit balling here, I don't have a strong opinion on it either way.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by toomuchtodo on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:43PM (#19405648)

The IRS is friendly enough to accept your proposal and then confirm if you’re right or not (to their standards). It’s not a negotiation. That’s why this is annoying. There is no value in the majority of filers going through the process so Intuit can profit.

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