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Maybe a compromise that would keep both sides happy is for the government free file program to apply only to those who owe tax, but if you want a refund you hav
by dave333 3y ago
Maybe a compromise that would keep both sides happy is for the government free file program to apply only to those who owe tax, but if you want a refund you have to pay for tax prep. Would maximize both tax and tax prep company revenue.
- notyourwork 3y agoNo. That’s absurd, deductions for using the tax system to my advantage should not cost me money. e.g. Donations, mortgage insurance, credit for solar and home efficiency.
- dave333 3y agoThen file your own taxes no need to pay for convenience.
- lost_tourist 3y agoI'm sure somewhere in there we're paying taxes on the taxes we've paid. I don't care one bit about the demise of TaxAct or any of the others. There will always be work for the more complex taxes need for those of us with businesses, employees, etc.
- saxonww 3y agoWhy do we need to keep the tax prep software industry happy and maximize their revenue?
- dave333 3y agoWhy have any capitalism? Because the alternatives like communism are disastrous. If we want a complex tax system tax prep companies serve a useful function.
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- lossolo 3y agoIf their product is better than the free government app, and users find the government app not good enough, they will win anyway. If it's not better, then they will not. I don't see a problem here.
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- chucksmash 3y agoThats quite a leap to go from "why should we care about keeping these particular companies happy?" to "why do you hate capitalism?"
- landemva 3y ago[flagged]
- Clubber 3y agoAnd that's hyperbole.
- landemva 3y agoHyperbole is "speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hyperbole https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hyperbol... IRS can lien assets, sieze assets, and imprison people. IRS is hiring armed employees. https://www.jobs.irs.gov/resources/job-descriptions/irs-criminal-investigation-special-agent https://www.jobs.irs.gov/resources/job-descriptions/irs-crim...
- Clubber 3y agoLet me guess, you think forcing children to have an education is also slavery.
- landemva 3y agoBeing forced into paying the federal government a portion of wages because a person happened to be born within the federal government land mass is taking the fruits of a person's work. Slaves are born into the slave owner's plantation. Don't pay and be punished by the slave master. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/slavery https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/slave... Going to school, at no charge to student with free lunch, is probably preferrable to working in the mines or factory at age ten. If you are concerned about government-run education, you can home school your children.
- Clubber 3y agoYou're not forced to work. Go to any big city, you'll see plenty of people who don't. You can just leech off everyone else's taxes, plenty of people do.
- madeofpalk 3y agoI promise you there is a middle ground between govt. propping up a valueless industry, and outright communism. …wait. Anyway, plenty of other capitalist countries have significantly easier filing.
- nitwit005 3y agoThe government intervening to keep an industry afloat, particularly an industry that only exists because of complex government regulations, is about as far from capitalism as you can get.
- shkkmo 3y agoWhy do we need to give leaches like Intuit anything? We want to minimize the income of companies like that. The tax code and filing process should be optimized for efficient use of government resources and tax payer time. There should be zero consideration for maximizing the profit of leaches like Intuit. If anything, we should be working to minimize the profit of such unethical companies.
- dave333 3y agoAnd what happens if your taxes are so complex you can't file and get a refund or even if it takes you a week to figure them out. I'm all for simplifying the tax code but we have what we voted for.
- GrinningFool 3y agoThen you pay someone to help, of course. That's the value add they can offer - no 'compromise' to appease them required. If they don't offer enough value to enough people, then they don't get to stay in business. No reason for the government to artificially sustain these businesses if they can't offer enough value without government aid.
- dave333 3y agoThe complex tax code created by the government is the only reason they exist in the first place.
- GrinningFool 3y agoTrue. You keep saying that we have the tax system we voted for - that was true, once. But what we have had for years now is the tax system that the lobby is preserving for their own benefit.
- dave333 3y agoThe checks and balances system makes it hard to change things e.g. guns. But not impossible, e.g. Obamacare.
- lost_tourist 3y agoWhy tho? They've had decades of profits, time for them to go the way of the buggy whip.