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How are you sure it's because of that?
by missedthecue 4y ago
How are you sure it's because of that?
- washbrain 4y agoIt's widely reported and widely understood that lobbying has specifically killed bills that have been introduced to simplify tax prep.
- shkkmo 4y agoFrom Intuit's own files: > Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier — such as creating a free government filing system or pre-filling people’s returns with payroll or other data the IRS already has. “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” reads a confidential 2007 PowerPoint presentation from an Intuit board of directors meeting. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
- mrguyorama 4y agoYes. Another important note however is there are several politicians in a strange alliance that sees any simplification of a tax filing process as being bad because they are of the "all taxation is theft" and "I want to drown the government in the bathtub" mindset and making people hate taxes by making the process miserable is their favorite way to keep people angry at the government.