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Fuck all corpo scum! Intuit, TurboTax and H&R Block can all fuck right off! Corporate lobbying motherfuckers can burn in hell.
I filed for free with H&R Block.
Yeah but now H&R has all your financial information. It's "free" but that doesn't mean there is no cost.
after h&r block wrecked my taxes and cost me months of back and forth with the IRS, i take every possible opportunity to steer people away from them
i sat there and had to repeatedly correct the ancient walking corpse they hired part time to do tax filing as she kept entering wrong numbers on the computer. who knows wtf they did after i left
fuck h&r block. after that bullshit experience, i signed on with an actual business accountant and never had a single fuckup in 10+ years
I filed free with TT. But, will definitely plan on using the IRS system.
Old meme, but (1) you don't go to prison for making a mistake on your taxes in America — you have to do a big fraud (2) no, the government doesn't always know how much you owe, they only know stuff like domestic W2s and what banks file. There is a huge amount of ways to make income outside of that
I’m guessing 50% of individuals would be covered by just those 2 methods. Other methods would quickly follow once people realize how the rest of the world does not cater to crazy and the ones they can legally bribe (“lobby”).
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Our captured Gov't: You go to prison...unless you're very wealthy of course, this is America after all.
Then we're happy to negotiate, settle, reduce, and otherwise facilitate your repayment in a way that's convenient for you and your tax litigation team, sir!
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It's so weird to read a positive headline. :)
TurboTax for bankruptcy, LET'S GOOOOOOO!!!
Wait asking the states to allow this? Great means all the red states like the one I am stuck in will opt out fucking us over.
Usually they ask politely at first then 'ask' by threatening to pull interstate funding. (MADD or Common Core, for example)
Don't fool yourself, there's a lot of Democrats in the pocket of the tax prep lobby.
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Dark Brandon's war with TurboTax has only just begun...
It's kinda wild to see things moving in the right direction for once...
It's almost like, I don't know, Biden is helping. But both sides bad, amirite?
I would say helping perpetrate a genocide slightly outweighs making filing taxes a little easier. It's a very, "He makes the trains run on time" sentiment.
Although I do like it. We've been due this for a long time. I wonder if Turbo Tax is freaking out.
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Carry on IRS, I would have zero issues using their tax return service. I'm certain the corporate tax return lobbyist are working overtime to prevent this.
Any takers on what party of small government will try to dismantle this?
You want a Biden TAX PANEL to decide if your grandmother has to pay or not? We will defend your right to choose the tax prep service of your choice!
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Dearest American friends,
I'm happy for you. Given your tax system this seems like a really positive step forward.
I hope it makes your lives better.
Wild to read how the US tax system works when you're used to the EU.
Maybe one day you'll also get automatic tax filling without lifting a finger.
Then how would you arbitrarily fine your citizens?
Calling taxes a fine is about the most american thing ever...
I think what they meant was forcing people to do it all by hand invites mistakes, which are then fined.
Yes, or pay someone to do it.
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Does this include state taxes?
The agency also is inviting all states with a state income tax to sign up and help people file their state returns for free. During the 2024 pilot, tax agencies in Arizona, Massachusetts, California and New York helped people directly file their state taxes.
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I signed up to do the free IRS filing but got rejected unfortunately because I had entered into a domestic partnership which made me ineligible. Not really sure why since I was filing single anyway but oh well, this is good news and I can't wait to try it next year.
The test was limited to make sure the core fundamentals worked. Your situation is an "edge case," i.e an unlikely situation that makes things much harder to code.
It sounds like they cut you out to make sure the product worked, and will now be on working "edge cases," by far the hardest part of any computer engineering.
This is HORRIBLE! I absolutely can NOT stand ANYTHING that makes Biden look good!
-Republicans who care about the Economy and the Country.
How about return free filling.. Why the hell do we have to do anything at all?
WhAAAAATT! wow that is amazing great news. Holy shit!
I’ll be the contrarian - this could be good for Intuit.
They were already forced to support free filing for simple returns. This IRS Direct File has similar eligibility, so Intuit already wasn’t making money off them, but now Intuit also doesn’t need the cost of scaling up for them
Intuit gets to take a bunch of freeloaders off their support costs, and can focus where their real profits are: people with more complex returns or higher income, that also don’t need an accountant
Intuit also gets to act less scammy. The only way they were making anything off those freeloaders was selling them things they don’t need
They made money off upselling people who thought it would be free. Or another way was to wait to tell them about the charges until you've spent a couple hours on the application. ...or the way they would sell you last years tax information back to you to save you a few hours filling out forms.
United states of monetization.
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I know how Intuit will respond: By lobbying to kill this.
I'm truly amazed that this was ever a thing. The US is a case study of destroying value while raising GDP.
Wonder how it'll compare to FreeTaxUSA? I've had very good luck with that the last few years.
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"TurboTax must die"
That would be the perfect title of a multi billion dollar franchise about rebels from the IRS tryijg to thwart known scammers from Intuit.
US legislative: This is, now now now I say I say. This is un American gosh darn it!
do these communism really expect the federal government to allow people to file taxes without a money changer middling man the filing?
NOT IN MY AMERICA!
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