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Well, the alternative the OP is about: > …There’s been proposals in Congress on and off for years, from people like Elizabeth Warren, to appropriate money to t
by jrochkind1 5y ago
Well, the alternative the OP is about:
> …There’s been proposals in Congress on and off for years, from people like Elizabeth Warren, to appropriate money to the for the IRS to do what it was thinking about doing back in the George W. Bush administration 20 years ago, which is to join many other developed wealthy countries in having an online filing process that’s free and offered by the government to all of us as citizens.
- missedthecue 5y agoSo Turbo tax spending less than $2 million was more powerful than the agenda of POTUS? Boy, Amazon with their $20 million in annual lobbying is getting taken for a ride.
- jrochkind1 5y agoOK, you can disagree with the assignment of responsibility from OP (I'm happy to blame the politicians), either way that's the alternative we don't have but most similar countries do.
- missedthecue 5y agoPerhaps the tax system in the US is far more complicated in than it is in foreign countries. I am trained in UK tax law, but not in US law, although I do file taxes in the US. The UK system is far more straightforward than in the States. On account of this, the US tax system may not lend itself well to automatic pre-filing.