Comment by Arainach
7 months ago
>2) Operating Direct File cost taxpayers $814/filing in 2024. This is a lot more expensive than commercial offerings - it would be cheaper to just give everyone TurboTax
It did nothing of the sort. This is counting the costs to build a system and then pretending to split them over the number of introductory users in the first few years. The marginal cost of an additional taxpayer using the system was essentially 0.
And it was very limited who could even use it during that selected time period!