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recently I complained to a coworker about the state not having an equivalent free file fillable forms and he piped back "thank Intuit for that". I thought what
by jxramos 5y ago
recently I complained to a coworker about the state not having an equivalent free file fillable forms and he piped back "thank Intuit for that". I thought what do they have to do with any of that? Just seemed totally disconnected to me. Then this year when I was free fillable forms filing and using the Brave browser I saw all this add blocked junk and checked it out and wow it was all stuff from Intuit. I would have never guessed that free file fillable forms is an Intuit product, it's pretty well hidden the relationship. If you dig around the website you can uncover the origins but it's not obvious with any branding and what not.
- astura 5y agoI think governments outsourcing software development is fairly common? I've worked on a government (intranet) site in the past as a contractor, we didn't add any branding so nobody would know who the developer is unless they did a FOIA request. Though I don't know if the lack of branding is due to design choice or contractual requirements. They already have experience creating tax software so it seems like an obvious choice to outsource to.