Comment by lotsofpulp
7 months ago
The cost of giving money to Intuit is that they then give it to politicians to create a more convoluted tax return so that you are further locked into giving Intuit money every year.
7 months ago
The cost of giving money to Intuit is that they then give it to politicians to create a more convoluted tax return so that you are further locked into giving Intuit money every year.
I realize you're just repeating frequently reported information, and Intuit has indeed lobbied against the IRS creating a free competitor to their product. But Intuit has not lobbied to make taxes more complicated. Congress does that well enough on its own. If you reread the original ProPublica piece that kicked off all the Intuit-hate 6 years ago, you'll see they imply it but carefully don't actually say it or back it up; others quoting the article were less careful.