Comment by chowchowchow
8 days ago
They are because they have an interest in keeping tax filing difficult and unapproachable, to keep public animus against taxes at its maximum. Coincidentally this is 100% in alignment with the tax prep industry whose entire existence is based on products which solve and handle the complicated tax situation.
As he said, conspiracy theory
You're wrong:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888326592096547245
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886092387098796499
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858872775395426553
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1873796626223161603
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861824194113343870
None of those tweets are about tax prep. They are about him personally wanting to pay less taxes.
If Elon wanted he could fund an opensouce alternative to Turbotax.
I am willing to bet 1k that Intuit's 2024 TurboTax Online and other Consumer Group revenue of $4.4 billion will remain above 4B in 2025.
Simplifying the tax code is about tax prep. The simpler the tax code, the simpler to file. Though what you say about him wanting to lower taxes is possibly true, none of those posts are about that.
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Reforming the tax code and eliminating loopholes is orthogonal to making it easier to file. Closing loopholes doesn't hurt Intuit and H&R Block.
Simplifying the tax code makes it easier to file.
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I’m not and these tweets aren’t relevant to what I wrote.
Not relevant because you exclude Elon Musk from the "they" who "have interest in keeping tax filing difficult and unapproachable"? Because he is clearly not one of them: "Simplifying the tax code will increase productivity", "Crazy idea: let’s simplify the tax code", "The tax code needs drastic simplification!", etc. And he seems to have quite a bit of influence in the Trump administration.
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