IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024::Direct File is a shot across the bows of Turbotax, H&R Block, and others who have resisted free and simple tax filing for decades.

  • @DerArzt
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    501 year ago

    Why can’t they pre fill in the form and ask us if it’s correct. The cast majority of us have pretty straight forward filling is.

    • prole
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      301 year ago

      Because Intuit and H&R Block have given more money to have it stay the same than anybody has for simplifying it.

      • @PizzaMan
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        241 year ago

        Gotta love a bribery based legislature system.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Can’t like… a few million of us put a dollar in to make a big enough bribe to counter these assholes’ bribes?

          • @PizzaMan
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            81 year ago

            People have tried with minimal success to do something like this IIRC.

            The biggest problem is that corporate America has shit loads of cash. So much so that even if Americans were to pull the money together, it just wouldn’t compete.

            The solution is to vote politicians into power that don’t accept bribes and are willing to criminalize them.

            • TwoGems
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              51 year ago

              So basically never vote for Republicans!

              • @PizzaMan
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                41 year ago

                More or less, yeah

                • @krakenx
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                  1 year ago

                  The house passed a ton of great bills in 2021-2022. There weren’t enough votes in the senate for any to become law though. We can blame the two openly corrupt Democrats for that, or we can blame the 50 corrupt Republicans.

                  Also the inflation reduction act did pass, and from the article:

                  “The program is more or less a direct result of funding provided by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, through which $15 million was earmarked for the purpose of exploring and implementing a simple, free, government-provided tax filing service.”

                • TwoGems
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                  11 year ago

                  I don’t know. Would you mind explaining to me what she’s done with sources?

              • @PizzaMan
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                41 year ago

                That is basically what is going on. We do technically have representation in the same way La Croix has taste.