“Maximizing profit for the shareholders” is usually in direct opposition with “minimizing expenses for the clients”, as the current price hike waves in Silicon Valley can easily prove.

We have progressive tax rates so you’ll be paying less than 20%. A simple example using your single week of work would have you paying 0% for day 1, 5% for day two, 10% for day 3, 15% for day 4, and 20% for day 5. Assuming you make $100 a day/$500 a week, this would put your tax bill at $50 for the week or 10% even though you hit the 20% bracket.

Well have fun when your house burns down, cause the fire department certainly isn’t gonna come there without getting paid.

You exchange that money for infrastructure and services. You think that roads build themselves with fairy dust and unicorn wishes?

I wanted to write a clever, sarcastic reply to this, but I couldn’t come up with anything.

Suffice it to say taxes are what fund society at large. Roads, schools, etc. If you lived on an isolated island without any access to the benefits of society, I’d say you have a point, but you’re using the Internet, so…

You’ve always been able to file directly, but it involves paper forms not software that can guide you through the process and identify extra forms/deductions/additions that you might need to include.

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

Four states signed up for the test, the rest “may be eligible” due to not having state income tax.

I volunteer!