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Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.

Zach, Elizabeth
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21781/irs-tax-return-filing-difficult-lobbyists-intuit-turbotax-hr-b

Publisher:  In These Times
Date Written:  01/04/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

The complicated process of paying and filing taxes - and the consquences of doing so incorrectly - cause hardship to many Americans especially the poor. This system could be much easier but many companies have an interest in maintaining the status quo.

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On April 2, the House passed the Taxpayer First Act of 2019, a bill co-signed by 18 Democrats and 10 Republicans, which would permanently prohibit the IRS from creating its own electronic tax filing system.

This may not seem like a big deal; many Americans already use online services provided from tax companies, such as TurboTax. But what most might not realize is that tax filing could be a lot simpler – and cheaper - for everyone....

Bankman singles out two major roadblocks to the simplification of filing taxes: the influence of anti-tax activists such as Grover Norquist and Rush Limbaugh, and the so-called tax lobby that represents the interests of tax software companies....

Intuit, H&R Block and other for-profit tax preparation companies, such as Liberty Tax, are members of a consortium called the Free File Alliance, which seeks to preempt any IRS free online tax preparation programs with their own services for low-income taxpayers.
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