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You ever consider how much power Turbotax and H&R block have? The government could behind the doors make a deal with them that could potentially make billions
by swalsh 13y ago
You ever consider how much power Turbotax and H&R block have? The government could behind the doors make a deal with them that could potentially make billions of dollars of revenue by simply omitting a question for example.
- greenyoda 13y agoI think that's a highly unlikely scenario. It would be very hard to keep a deal like that secret, since many of the companies' employees would potentially know about it (the executives who made the decision, plus anyone whose job it was to make sure the code was working correctly: accountants, programmers, testers). Also, any outside accountant who looked at the software would be able to figure it out. And think of the risk to these companies' and the IRS' reputations if they did something like that and it was exposed by the media. The people involved in the decision would almost certainly lose their jobs, and the whistleblowers who leaked it to the media would become heroes.