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DirectFile was quite good for the one year I was able to use it and addressed your concerns. Don't worry, that's since been taken care of. https://apnews.com/
by willis936 1y ago
DirectFile was quite good for the one year I was able to use it and addressed your concerns. Don't worry, that's since been taken care of.
https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-trump-4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-...
- j_bum 1y agoJust a heads up, your URL 404’s
- willis936 1y agoThanks. Fixed. I stripped what I thought was a tracker without testing.
- Scoundreller 1y agoThe fun part is you can change the text before what you thought was tracking to anything you want: http://apnews.com/article/apnews-declares-trump-stupid-4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab http://apnews.com/article/apnews-declares-trump-stupid-4bb0b...
- culi 1y agoThis is true about a lot of sites and I'll often remove the unimportant part when saving or sharing urls for brevity sake. E.g. https://apnews.com/article/4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab https://apnews.com/article/4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab This is true for most news websites as well as online shopping sites
- hedayet 1y agoI can totally see the minds running TurboTax spending a lot of money to make this happen.
- awkwardpotato 1y agoIntuit spent $3.8 million on lobbying against Direct File in 2023, HR Block another $3 million. In total, the tax prep industry has spent $93 million lobbying against the Free File program since 2003 (through 2023, couldn't find a more recent source). https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02/turbotax-maker-intuit-spent-millions-in-record-lobbying-blitz-amid-threats-to-tax-prep-industry/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02/turbotax-maker-intu...
- cinntaile 1y agoIt's sad to see how little money needs to be spent to make the lives of millions of tax payers more miserable.
- sharts 1y agoJust goes to show how cheap our politicians really are. In both heart and bank.
- mrguyorama 1y agoNot "our politicians", republicans Democrats keep trying to make taxes in America better, including prominent democrats literally calling for the investigation of Intuit's bribery here. Then people elect republicans.
- stogot 1y agoIndependent analysis of official state reports contradicts you. It’s easier to look at states than to analyze which federal rep submitted which amendment or rider https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/worst-run-states-big-spending-democrats/ https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/worst-run-stat...
- tencentshill 1y agoThat's $3 million of direct, fully disclosed funding. There are many other ways of bribing officials, and it gets easier every day.