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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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