Gina Spadafori
Chris MorranWatching the NFL playoffs and seeing all this TurboTax sponsorship reminds me of how TurboTax's parent company spent decades lobbying to prevent free and easy e-filing of your tax returns.
SloanLA@themorrancave @ProPublica No one should have to file taxes that isn't a corporation. Banks and employers have all the info, they should just handle it. The rest is a scam.
Naveen Akunuri@themorrancave @ProPublica i always wonder when I see the shady things a company does and the values they say they want their employees to exhibit. These are Intuit’s values apparently. So does anyone ever try to reconcile these or everyone accepts that published values are bogus everywhere?
Jeroen van Bergen@themorrancave @ProPublica Is the American tax system extremely complicated? My Dutch tax income tax is easy: I log in on the tax site, check the pre-filled data on income, savings etc and maybe add some special deductions, sign digitally and done. It seems strange to need a third party to handle a standard exchange of information between a citizen and the government.
Paul Westbrook@themorrancave @ProPublica I had the exact same thought. The full root of the problem is the insanely complicated and bloated tax code courtesy of Congress.
Paul Wintz@themorrancave @ProPublica 👉"Employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be 'compromise without integrity.'"
somedaypilot@themorrancave @ProPublica https://www.freetaxusa.com/ is free for absolutely everyone for federal returns. Never give turbotax another cent
Frank Cote@themorrancave @ProPublica oh man! No kidding. Outrageous!
Brian Wandell@themorrancave @ProPublica
From the article
“TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made tax filing simple and free for most citizens.”