It's pretty much the same as the situation with taxi medallion owners now that Uber has come along. If you ask me, the correct answer is for the government to

It's pretty much the same as the situation with taxi medallion owners now that Uber has come along. If you ask me, the correct answer is for the government to either give some one-off compensation to Intuit (or buy the company from its existing shareholders), and then shut it down, and reform the system. Why should the government pay money to a private corporation or shareholders? Because they created this mess ("opportunity") in the first place with a ridiculous tax code. It's just the actual, realized, dollar-value cost of the mess that was created, instead of externalizing the cost onto taxpayers. Once that cost has been paid, the system can be fixed.