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[...] as well as in a trial project in California, now do their taxes for their citizens. But Intuit lobbied to kneecap the IRS from doing this, from actually making our lives easier, because it may have threatened [...]

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[...] Corruption Is Why You Can’t Do Your Taxes in Five Minutes [Matt Stoller on Republic Report] In California, the state has a program called ReadyReturnthat lets you do this for California state taxes. You sign it and send it back, and it takes a few minutes. But for most of us, this isn’t how it works. We gather our tax forms and various banking information, and spend the weekend facing a difficult bureaucratic set of forms, hoping we did it all correctly. Or we use a costly tax filing service or software. Candidate Barack Obama promised to end this nightmare. He said he would “dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes.” The IRS would use information it “already gets from banks and employers to give taxpayers the option of pre-filled tax forms to verify, sign and return.” Experts, he said, estimated this would save 200 million total hours or work and $2 billion. You can file this under yet another broken campaign promise. And why? Who doesn’t like an idea that is so simple and convenient and just generally helpful? Well, the large software makers, for one. Intuit in fact lobbied incredibly hard to kill the California program Ready Return (complete with attacks from right-wing tax groups). Intuit wasn’t completely successful, but under their pressure, California budgeted only $10,000 to get the word out to residents about the program. [...]

By: Nica Rican

Nica Rican — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:18:00 +0000

Go the an IRS office and they will do it for FREE.. also there are vans that go around certain low-income neighborhoods that do it.. I am a tax preparer myself and don’t mind pointing you to the direction of a free source. Reason why? because some people want a middleman between he government and their money. Because some people don’t have TIME to deal with it even if the information is there.. Remember, everyone can mow their lawn, but many don’t and delegate it to someone else, because there time is worth more then what they pay someone to do it for them. More power to those that want to save money. But don’t destroy an industry because the few losers out there. I’m pro regulation that won’t cost a fortune. It weeds out the deadbeat fake preparers who don’t do people any justice…

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Popular Bloggers.com – Why Doesn’t The IRS Do Your Taxes For You? — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:36:59 +0000

[...] by a few keystrokes at IRS headquarters. So why don’t we do it? Two reasons. One is lobbying by the tax preparation industry to discourage states and the feds from developing easier tax-paying systems, as California [...]

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CPA — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:12:00 +0000

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