> Allowing the creation of a federal site to do free tax returns seems like it can only lead to the evaporation of their current customers. Who would pay them

> Allowing the creation of a federal site to do free tax returns seems like it can only lead to the evaporation of their current customers. Who would pay them $150+ when you can just go to irs.gov/taxreturn (or whatever it is) and do it for free? Again, you keep saying "allow", like they have a choice. They kinda don't. Congress got really pissed at them as did the public. > The lobbying was the only thing preventing that, so the stopping of lobbying seems like it is entirely giving up on the market. Honestly, I would say it's not the only thing preventing it. And they're not giving up on the market.