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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC's "predetermined decision."

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why can't we just do it like the rest of the world where the IRS (or equivalent) does it and you just sign off on it being correct? They should already have all the data they need from corporate quarterly filings.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Because of the lobbying these tax companies are doing to keep the tax system so complex you need to hire them to do your taxes for you. If it were easy to do your taxes then these companies would not need to exist - and they cannot have that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capitalism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do believe the other countries that have better tax filing systems are also capitalist...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Other countries seemed to have some common sense when it comes to capitalism in that they largely don't allow capitalist incentives to entirely consume areas of public good, such as healthcare / education / and yes even government services such as tax collection.

The USA kind of forgot during the cold war that crony capitalism is a thing and the incentive to make the most money possible isn't compatible with providing public goods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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