TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta... by TrackerFF on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:40AM (#45605215)

Partially there's this idea that if it the government that's in charge, you'll somehow pay more taxes.

But if it's private enterprise, their incentive is to lower your taxes as much as they can, while you pay them a small fee.

Not saying that this mentality or assumptions are good / correct, but that's basically the rationale I've heard too many times.

There's this deeply, deeply ingrained idea that the government wants to rob you blind, no mater what.

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Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta... by saulpw on Thursday October 16, 2025 @01:11PM (#45607959)

And yet the government as a whole has no incentive to take your money beyond the tax laws they pass. Individuals may be corrupt but that's a very different issue.

Whereas a for-profit company's explicitly stated goal is to make as much money off you as they can.

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