• brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    7 months ago

    The argument has been since free filing means only the wealthy will hire accountants, free filing would discriminate against the poor given a few mistakes will be made here and there.

    I may not need to mention that disingenuous argument is made by the pirates at Intuit and their lobbyists.

    • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      free filing would discriminate against the poor

      As opposed to the current system where the richest among us can hire a whole team of accountants to find every deduction possible?

        • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          It should also be noted that if the vast majority of people do nothing special on their taxes and just accept the government’s assessment, then that leaves a much smaller group of people to be audited. And a much larger portion of those people will be those who are trying to weasel their way out of paying their share. Right now, with the IRS being criminally underfunded, they only focus on low hanging fruit, the small fries. With those people being boiler plater auto-accepting tax payers, that would mean the IRS has no reason to audit them and can focus on the big boys where the real cheats are. That’s another big reason we do not have that sort of system and why the IRS is currently so underfunded (despite every dollar spent on the IRS generating between 5 and 9 dollars in revenue from tax fraud/evasion). Those kinds of people pay to make sure it doesn’t happen.

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      7 months ago

      Holy Christ someone using disingenuous appropriately, I’d almost given up on the word. Thanks for saving it!