Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing

Re:Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing by SergeAx on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:30PM (#37365702)

But it doesn't make any sense. I understand renters banking on realty, 'cause there are just so many land and buildings and making more buildings is expensive and complicated. But tax filing is just a software. Nowadays we teach kids in schools to write software.

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Re:Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing by jabroni_salad on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:24PM (#37366338)

They aren't being taught the tax code, though, and guess who lobbies against simplifying the tax code?

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Re:Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing by yencabulator on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:33PM (#37366379)

If you set up to create a tax filing online service for regular consumers, you'll likely get your company bought out by Intuit before you can make significant market impact... Fine outcome for the founders personally, but Intuit really doesn't want the status quo to change.

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