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A comment on How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013). Parent comment

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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