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A comment on TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free. Parent comment

Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by chrismeller on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:14PM (#21284180)
Hey now, no pointing out that the government has an incentive to keep the system difficult and confusing because it gets them money!

That’s absolutely not acceptable in this thread (I tried)!

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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by mixmastamyk on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:20PM (#21284929)
Tax code complexity and the mechanics of filing are orthogonal. Fixing both is not a requirement for fixing either separately, or an excuse for not doing it.
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