Many U.S. taxpayers in a dozen states for the first time can electronically file their federal returns directly to the Internal Revenue Service for free — but critics insist the new federal benefit is not needed and will even harm both users and states.
  Many U.S. taxpayers in a dozen states for the first time can electronically file their federal returns directly to the Internal Revenue Service for free — but critics insist the new federal benefit is not needed and will even harm both users and states.
  • taanegl@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “American taxpayers do not want to invite the proverbial fox into the hen house,” wrote the officials, led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen.

    …then wtf is TurboTax? Aren’t they getting way too much information regarding taxing, aren’t they becoming a central company with probably the economic oversight of an authoritarian nation?

    Also… the IRS is where you file your taxes. To say they shouldn’t have a system to make that easier, while claiming they are getting all the information… when their job… is to get all that information from the tax payer in the first place.

    Is these officials stupid, or do they expect their constituency to be?

    Here’s a little theory; the IRS has been gamed for many, many decades, so that oligarchs can have an easier time hiding money and avoiding taxes, while ordinary tax payers are overburdened by an outdated, obsfucated, unnecessarily complex and archaic filing practice.

    Again, US officials licking boot by way of acting tough.