Tax Prep Lobbying
Discussions focus on tax preparation companies like Intuit (TurboTax) and H&R Block lobbying against IRS initiatives for free, simple, or automated tax filing, with links to related HN threads, ProPublica articles, and FTC actions.
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Related:60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35476709 - April 2023 (277 comments)Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381701 - March 2
Uh oh.Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381701 - March 2023 (214 comments)Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34840039 -
Tax season is tax lobby rage season!Related:IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764952 - Feb 2023 (199 comments)IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462122<
Related:Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705469 - April 2023 (129 comments)60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35476709 - April 2023 (2
Related:FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846071 - March 2022 (555 comments)Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409523 - Feb 2022 (122 co
Past threads. Get ready for more in April...Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against It (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185484 - Feb 2022 (18 comments)Killing TurboTax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330584</
Related:Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856968 - March 2022 (114 comments)FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/it
Past threads. Get ready for more in April...Killing TurboTax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330584 - March 2021 (662 comments)Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138446 - Feb 2021 (219 comments)Tu
Related:IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462122 - Jan 2023 (247 comments)TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31072202 - April 2022 (394 comments)Filing taxes could be free &a
It's CPS time again. Related:Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37363616 - Sept 2023 (231 comments)IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36804710 - July 2023 (221 comments)