Thinly-veiled payola as the threat of free filing looms large over their extortionate business model. I don’t doubt there are some good use cases for TurboTax, but for the vast majority of tax filers, it’s excessive. Perhaps if the tax code wasn’t Byzantine and broken there’d be less of a case to make. Of course, TurboTax and filing firms have much reason to deter tax code simplification in addition to thwarting free filing[1].

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