They decide who is in the pilot at this point, not us.
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Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months agoLink? I will instantly use it. Mostly to stick it to Intuit.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That hurts, hope it comes to the public.
SquishMallow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It will. Takes time to test and roll things out
Decoy321@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You are severely underestimating the tax prep lobbyists. The IRS has been trying to do this for decades.
HubertManne@kbin.social 7 months ago
its only some states in the pilot and not mine :(
LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
irs.gov/…/irs-direct-file-update-free-secure-irs-…
If you don’t qualify for the pilot, you can also find out what other tax filing companies do not lobby to keep taxes hard to figure out and file.
LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So you mainly want to avoid Intuit owned companies and H&R Block. They alone spent millions per year to lobby against easy and free filing for taxpayers.
Then there’s the ACTR (American Coalition Of Taxpayer Rights) who spend $100s of thousands a year lobbying for the same (and are made up by 14 members:
americancoalitionfortaxpayerrights.org/about/
Intuit
H&R Block
wildcardology@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Things you need to know first
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Turbotax has entered the chat. Turbotax has DMed your senator a couple hundred thousand to make sure you will never be able to use this
Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not going to lie; there is a threshold where just being a complete tribal savage is easier than dealing with the beauracacy. If it becomes too time consuming, expensive, and stressful to do taxes, I will squat in the soon-to-be ruins of business real estate and hunt the local pigeon and duck populations to survive.