Comment on FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”

• Hikiru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Companies like TurboTax bribe politicians to not pass laws that would require you be told how much you owe

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  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, I’d never heard of this. Was there a specific story or article you read about this or did you mean that loosely

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    • sfbing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google for “Intuit lobbying.”

      It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.

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      • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lobbying is brain aids I don’t understand what it’s legitimate purpose is

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    • allthelolcats@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here is a great NPR podcast on it. But basically they tried it in California, people liked it, TurboTax didn’t and lobbied against it. They sent you how much you owed and you could verify it, confirm, and send it back super simple.

      www.npr.org/transcripts/521132960

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah in Sweden we just get the information and have to sign it or correct faults in their calculations (things they couldn’t have known etc). Takes 5 minutes for most people and can be done in the phone with digital identification.

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is the US like this? I’m not from there and am very confused… how is it the citizen’s responsibility?

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most people in the UK don’t think about tax, it just happens without their input.

    If you have a small business or something more complex there are forms, but they’re not that complex… you mostly just tick boxes.

    The US sounds like a dystopian nightmare the way they talk about tax.

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    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ifkr?! How tf do I have to calculate what I owe you? Especially when YOU are setting the rates! Wtf?!

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• triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IRS: Guess how much you owe.

  Me: $20,000?

  IRS: Nope!

  Me: Okay how much do I owe?

  IRS: You have to guess!

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• snootchiebootchies@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • residentmarchant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In some other countries, you only need to fill out the exemption part. If you have nothing, you just click “file” and it does it for you

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  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think we can definitely agree on your last sentence

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the idea is that if you do it and they do it, when they match, they can assume they are both right, and when they don’t, they can compare and update their side or suggest/demand correction on yours. And if things look fishy, have a closer look at everything with an audit.

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  • Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel that taxes should just be automatic unless you do unusual things like own a personal business or trade a lot of stocks or some such. Doing taxes for those makes sense since you need to write off business expenses and similar

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