Intuit is an international company with 18,000 employees. Nobody is forced to use Intuit’s TurboTax.
Everyone can file their own taxes anyway they like, sometimes really free – like using the AARP service. Why should Intuit be forced to compete with the government?
What about other tax prepares, individuals who make their living doing taxes?
Why isn’t Congress and the IRS working toward a much simpler tax code instead of a new filing system?
Oh yeah, a government developed, run and maintained system is hardly “Free”
Both the left and right political extremes are great at oversimplification, generalization, misleading and ignoring consequence.
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Yes, it would be nice if we had a simpler tax system, but in the meantime, I fully support a government-developed tax software package. Why should I be forced to select a software product from a private company? Let them compete.
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap
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And they do compete, among various companies and with thousands of individual tax preparers plus free services like AARP. There is no fair competition with government.
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IRS tax software won’t be free because it will cost billions to write and maintain for the yearly code changes. Warren should be glad that Turbotax and HR Block and others have offered a useful product at a low cost if you look for their software on sale.
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Warren wants a free system for filing. For the price of a postage stamp it’s available!
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A simple flat tax would work very nicely but the more complicated it is the more government is needed. The tax writing folks (Ways and Means) loves complex and complicated as you need them–they get healthy contributions for re-election–they get to make the rules and you get to grovel in their presence begging for benefits.
Remember, we need 85,000 new IRS agents and they will only audit the rich. If you believe that you will believe anything.
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