FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

Re:FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices by guerby on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:42PM (#24410735)

Forgot to say that the french tax authority open sourced the (after FOIA-like pressure - called "CADA" in France) code that computes the tax amount from the tax form entries. It was written in a custom language (with documentation):

https://github.com/etalab/calculette-impots-m-source-code

You have each year code in the repo.

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Re:FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices by elliekelly on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:50PM (#24410826)

Do you happen to know whether the CADA pressure came from another branch or agency of the French government or whether it was some sort of transparency advocacy group?

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Re:FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices by masklinn on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:11PM (#24411061)

Sorta the latter but not really. It was an econ student (Adrien Fabre) as part of a fiscal simulation project (OpenFisca).

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