IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system
> Intuit spent at least $25.6 million since 2006 on lobbying, H&R Block about $9.6 million and the conservative Americans for Tax Reform roughly $3 million.<p>> In contrast, the NAACP has spent $140,000 lobbying on “free-file” since 2006 and Public Citizen has spent $110,000 in the same time frame.<p>With two orders of magnitude of lobbying dollars difference on either side, I'm surprised this is going anywhere.<p>> “An IRS direct-to-e-file system is redundant and will not be free – not free to build, not free to operate, and not free for taxpayers,” Plummer (a spokesman for Intuit) said, adding that it “will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars.”<p>Oh, like the system your company built and lobbies for? How do you say stuff like this out loud without your pants bursting into flames on the spot?