Comment on Tax time

alienanimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TurboTax plus Republicans wanting to make paying taxes as difficult as possible so people will vote to cut taxes

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    rich donors want it complex so they can keep finding the loop holes that let them pay nothing most years.

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  • redballooon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which is not a solution because just because while you pay less taxes you still have to go through the process

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They want people to be mad at having to pay taxes

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• EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The IRS is actually going test pilot such a program in a few states in the near future.

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  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which is why they keep wanting to defund the IRS (example):

    1. It allows the wealthy to cheat on their taxes with less concerns of getting audited or if they do get audited, they can outspend the auditors.
    2. It would have de-funded this measure the IRS is getting ready to test which would allow Americans to figure out and pay their taxes without feeling compelled to go through middle men like Intuit and TurboTax.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If I was a billionaire, it sure is more affordable to spend 30 million on lobbying than paying 50 million on taxes.

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  America moment

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Except people been having to do their taxes for a hell of a lot longer than turbo tax has existed. Turbo is a big lobbying entity, but they aren’t the only ones.

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  • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They aren’t the only one, but they are the largest one. They didn’t make the system the way it is, but they benefit massively from it staying this way.

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