• cccrontab@lemmy.world
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    Fuck all corpo scum! Intuit, TurboTax and H&R Block can all fuck right off! Corporate lobbying motherfuckers can burn in hell.

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        Yeah but now H&R has all your financial information. It’s “free” but that doesn’t mean there is no cost.

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        after h&r block wrecked my taxes and cost me months of back and forth with the IRS, i take every possible opportunity to steer people away from them

        i sat there and had to repeatedly correct the ancient walking corpse they hired part time to do tax filing as she kept entering wrong numbers on the computer. who knows wtf they did after i left

        fuck h&r block. after that bullshit experience, i signed on with an actual business accountant and never had a single fuckup in 10+ years

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      Old meme, but (1) you don’t go to prison for making a mistake on your taxes in America — you have to do a big fraud (2) no, the government doesn’t always know how much you owe, they only know stuff like domestic W2s and what banks file. There is a huge amount of ways to make income outside of that

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        I’m guessing 50% of individuals would be covered by just those 2 methods. Other methods would quickly follow once people realize how the rest of the world does not cater to crazy and the ones they can legally bribe (“lobby”).

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      Our captured Gov’t: You go to prison…unless you’re very wealthy of course, this is America after all.

      Then we’re happy to negotiate, settle, reduce, and otherwise facilitate your repayment in a way that’s convenient for you and your tax litigation team, sir!

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      Step in the right direction either way. Hopefully this means they’ll be capturing metrics on which parts of the process are the most complicated and improve those areas.

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      The agency also is inviting all states with a state income tax to sign up and help people file their state returns for free. During the 2024 pilot, tax agencies in Arizona, Massachusetts, California and New York helped people directly file their state taxes.

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        I live in Massachusetts and I used the IRS free file service this year, for both state and federal taxes. It was a very painless process, and I had my federal refund in my bank account in less than ten days!! It really works.

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      You want a Biden TAX PANEL to decide if your grandmother has to pay or not? We will defend your right to choose the tax prep service of your choice!

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    This is HORRIBLE! I absolutely can NOT stand ANYTHING that makes Biden look good!

    -Republicans who care about the Economy and the Country.

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    I’m truly amazed that this was ever a thing. The US is a case study of destroying value while raising GDP.

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    Wonder how it’ll compare to FreeTaxUSA? I’ve had very good luck with that the last few years.

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      Ideally it will advance to emulate whats common in the EU : the tax service sends you a “we think you owe this. If correct, please confirm amd youre done. If not, please amend and then youre done.”

      This isn’t that proactive yet, but all the bones are there.

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    “TurboTax must die”

    That would be the perfect title of a multi billion dollar franchise about rebels from the IRS tryijg to thwart known scammers from Intuit.

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    I signed up to do the free IRS filing but got rejected unfortunately because I had entered into a domestic partnership which made me ineligible. Not really sure why since I was filing single anyway but oh well, this is good news and I can’t wait to try it next year.