Pluralistic: Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit (11 Feb 2025)

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Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit: Forcing you to pay Turbotax to send data to the IRS that it already has is the DEFINITION of government inefficiency.
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Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion: The process is the punishment.
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Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism": Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations.
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The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer): After years of expensively purchased delay, Turbotax and its fellow tax-profiteers are losing the fight to make you pay them to tell the government what it already knows.
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Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping: Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.
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Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?
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Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook: And they didn't even know they were doing it.
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Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees: Justice for the millions ripped off by Turbotax's "Free File" fraud.
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Broken Promises: The Writers Guild of America West makes the case for media un-consolidation.
How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax: More from Propublica's IRS Leaks.
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