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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC's "predetermined decision."

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[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (28 children)

The fact that the govt has the balls to tell me to figure out how much I owe them is hysterical. Especially when they supposedly know (at least roughly) how much I should owe

[–] Hikiru@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] allthelolcats@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/episode-760-tax-hero

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