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AP: Trump admin to kill IRS free tax-filing service that Intuit lobbied against (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because nothing says government efficiency quite like throwing away a brand new working system that you spent millions of dollars and years creating just to enrich a couple corporations

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

spent millions of dollars developing and also saves many times that

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

Before the election I applied for software jobs at the IRS hoping to work on this. This country blows.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Pure corporate greed turned into government policy. There is a word for that.

[–] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

This year I used chatgpt and free filing to do my taxes.

I also did turbo tax just to check my numbers.

I'm never using TurboTax again.