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Re:Killing TurboTax by lallysingh on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:06PM (#26333678)
I think if there was a basic extensible system, that could grow into a full product. Start with 1040EZ in year 1, then grow with your customers' needs as they age and need more.

TT has a large moat but behind it must be a ton of technical debt.

Would an open source solution work here?

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Re:Killing TurboTax by jnwatson on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:18PM (#26333821)
You’re imagining an army of tax accountants to continually keep a system up to date to put themselves out of business?
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Re:Killing TurboTax by lallysingh on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:06PM (#26334540)
They use software too. Their competition is turbotax.
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Re:Killing TurboTax by sokoloff on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:40PM (#26338342)
In many cases, that software is Intuit’s ProSeries which has obvious TurboTax code sharing when I interact with my preparer.
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Re:Killing TurboTax by Larrikin on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:18PM (#26333834)
There's atleast one Show HN every year that does that and promises support for the more complicated cases "in a few months".
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