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.
30 points
Because Intuit and H&R Block have given more money to have it stay the same than anybody has for simplifying it.
24 points
2 points
Can’t like… a few million of us put a dollar in to make a big enough bribe to counter these assholes’ bribes?
8 points
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.
