Politics Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. Thank TurboTax.

[SlyPokerDog]

A bill supported by Democrats and Republicans would make permanent a program that bars the IRS from ever developing its own online tax filing service.

https://www.propublica.org/article/...ffering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax

 

[SlyPokerDog]

It's also not fair that companies without our taxes from our paychecks for free. We should have to pay them for that privilege.

 

[riverman]

AARP does ours for free every year for a couple of decades now...great folks volunteer to do this service and work long hours just to help you out...democratic socialism at work! They are done at that other bastion of democratic socialism..the local library

 

[julius]

I like how turbo tax has the "free free fe-free" ads now. I've used them for 8 years now, I've never gotten anything free from them.

 

[MarAzul]

It's also not fair that companies without our taxes from our paychecks for free. We should have to pay them for that privilege.

This looks like something I wrote yesterday, when I look at it the next day.

 

[Lanny]

A bill supported by Democrats and Republicans would make permanent a program that bars the IRS from ever developing its own online tax filing service.

https://www.propublica.org/article/...ffering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax

I've used a CPA for the last 44 years. There was a period of about 4 years after my father, a CPA, passed away, where I tried using Turbo Tax but I always had errors and always wound up paying the government. I went back to a CPA and have had both piece of mind and larger refunds ever since.

By the way, when I graduated from college, my father took over doing my taxes. So, this one year when I was working for Boeing up in Seattle I did a rollover and forgot to tell my father. The IRS sent me a bill for a huge payment on the error of not reporting the rollover. I showed my father where I had made the rollover within the one year limit and he wrote the IRS the most beautiful cover letter I've ever read. I'm going to paraphrase. He told the IRS that we were sorry for the error and thanked them for finding it. He then went on to say that we had erred in not reporting our successful rollover and that a recalculation of that tax year resulted in a large additional refund for me rather than the tax liability that they claimed I owed. OMG, was I happy. They should have left well enough alone.

 

[MARIS61]

AARP does ours for free every year for a couple of decades now...great folks volunteer to do this service and work long hours just to help you out...democratic socialism at work! They are done at that other bastion of democratic socialism..the local library

Neither is an example of democratic socialism.

AARP receives the bulk of it's operating funds from mega-corporations (capitalism) and utilizes a massive volunteer workforce (charity).

Your local library is funded primarily by local property taxes, which are paid by homeowners (successful capitalists) who own homes and land after investing (capitalism) the fruits of their labors.

 

[riverman]

Neither is an example of democratic socialism.

AARP receives the bulk of it's operating funds from mega-corporations (capitalism) and utilizes a massive volunteer workforce (charity).

Your local library is funded primarily by local property taxes, which are paid by homeowners (successful capitalists) who own homes and land after investing (capitalism) the fruits of their labors.

good grief man...I know exactly what they are....I was being sarcastic and you took the bait..you are wrong about library funding though...they rely on money from several sources outside of taxes...out of district fees...the timber industry contributes...yet they have a huge volunteer base much like AARP....I pay my AARP dues but I think you and I would disagree about what democractic socialism actually is seeing as how it's pretty much just an ideal at this point in human history....