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

Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by tedunangst on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:20PM (#19406001)

But it's impossible to move the Overton window because of the massive TurboTax bribes.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by rayiner on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:32PM (#19406049)

There's probably a dozen people on HN reading this thread right now who can throw more cash at politicians than Intuit spends on lobbying each year.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by mixmastamyk on Saturday March 16, 2019 @12:21AM (#19406334)

Cheaper to hire an accountant to deal.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by dredmorbius on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:06AM (#19407859)

https://www.worldcat.org/title/logic-of-collective-action-pu...

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by PhasmaFelis on Saturday March 16, 2019 @01:02AM (#19406426)

But they don't.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by ineedasername on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:02AM (#19408151)

Except complex tax law benefits corporations as well, creating emergent properties that can be exploited. You'd have to outspend more than Intuit to change things.

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