How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
I always love reading absurd statements made by otherwise reasonable people who - of course - a salary depends on being unreasonable.<p>Here:<p>&gt; Intuit argues that allowing the IRS to act as a tax preparer could result in taxpayers paying more money.<p>Majority of work will be done automatically by some free jQuery and PHP scripts (hello Obamacare website) and taxpayers have only shell-out initial cost. Even if TurboTax is $19 per year, I have a hard time believing that 200MM tax payers X $19 will be less than running an enterprise servers for online consumers.<p>&gt; [...] &quot;STOP IRS TAKEOVER&quot; campaign and a website calling return-free filing a &quot;massive expansion of the U.S. government through a big government program.&quot;<p>I honestly laugh at this one. Just exactly which part of information that IRS process is not already in the IRS possession? With that statement -- they really reach out for the dumbest people hearing them out.<p>&gt; Explaining the company&#x27;s stance, Intuit spokeswoman Miller told the Los Angeles Times in 2006 that it was &quot;a fundamental conflict of interest for the state&#x27;s tax collector and enforcer to also become people&#x27;s tax preparer.&quot;<p>I have to place a call to intuit maybe they will sponsor my idea that I should fill out and asses my own respondibility when it comes to a parking ticket. I mean you cannot trust the government that they will be fair to you - so I should get note &quot;you violated parking zone - fill out this form and return to us with own assessment of your penalty&quot;. Gosh imagine wild wild west we would be living in if you stretch it to criminal law.