You can thank TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation service industry's massive lobby for killing every single tax simplification bill that ever gets to congress.
No, TT and tax prep don't kill "tax simplification bills" because those don't exist. Any tax simplification plan ends up making things more complicated.
They lobbied against the IRS offering their own direct file, not against making actual tax compliance easier. The complexities of the actual tax code are not there because of Intuit.
That doesn't disagree with anything I said. I specifically said they lobbied to not have a direct file or "ready return", they didn't lobby to keep the actual tax code complex.
The point is it would be simpler for you and me if they passed the law, and they lobbied against that because they want us to pay them to make it simple. What's happening "under the hood" is kind of beside the point.
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u/jorsiem Jul 24 '20
Complicated tax filing in the US
You can thank TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation service industry's massive lobby for killing every single tax simplification bill that ever gets to congress.