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.> 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.With two orders of magnitude of lobbying dollars difference on either side, I'm surprised this is going anywhere.> “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.”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?