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Re:13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep fi... by jghn on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:29PM (#37945014)
> They had marked up the car by how much government was going to give rebate on and there was no savings for a taxpayer

This is the thing that always gets me. After having seen too many examples of this I soured on these incentivized deductions. The benefit always seems to go to the middle man.

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Re:13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep fi... by JohnFen on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:53PM (#37945318)
Yep. I learned decades ago to ignore those types of incentives because they don't actually provide much (if any) benefit to me.

All they do is make everything more of a hassle.

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