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I honest to God can't imagine how fucking cheap the price for them to make it so that people have to use their paid services... which will make them many, many times more than their bribe ever was.
It would be like if you paid me 1 dollar and I did something that would make you 200 or 300 dollars...
I'll stick to FreeTaxUsa even if they charge me. Fuck Intuit.
Go to the HR office at your job and tell them you want to change your W-4. Change your status to exempt and withholding allowances to zero. Then just don't file a tax return anymore. You get more money every month and Trump and his IRS can go fuck themselves.
The joke might be in there as while AI cannot do your taxes today, we are hopefully not too far off.
Put every manager of TurboTax in prison as a traitor.
Crowdfund the airfare to El Salvador?
Or just put a cap on donations and block corporate donations?
that would have been reasonable 20 years ago.
I think people have to understand that we've entered a different era. The rich have gotten richer and become insanely powerful and "the game" has gone on for so long all the rules have been slightly bend to allow them to become more rich and powerful. If you continue to "be sensible" and ask if you may nibble around the edges, all you get is fascism. It's inevitable. So first you have to destroy them and their power, then you can reform the system. Reforming the system now, even if you could, won't do anything.
Not filing is still free.
Funniest part is how they're bribing the government with the money they took from customers. Now they can take more money from customers, which is more money for bribes.
It also means they didn't need to charge customers the prices they charged, since they have enough money to operate their business and bribe politicians.
It's like, you're paying them to work against you.
So backwards, but that's by design. Don't be a useful idiot.
If you know someone who works for one of these companies, you should ostracize them.
Stop giving free passes to people making our society worse.
I mean I feel like it depends on their role in the company. Not everyone has the luxury of choosing the work they do. I know at least a few people who work in billing for a healthcare company that don't want to do that work and understand it's bad but don't really have another choice as they couldn't get any other jobs. I'm not gonna blame someone for working at a bad company unless they're like an executive or other high up person who could take their skills to a different industry.
Then they should do their job exactly as half-assedly as it's possible to do without actually being fired. Steal coffee and creamer from the kitchen. Steal toilet paper. Accidentally deleted System32 on the office computer. Open all file attachments and links in emails. Crop-dust the bosses office. Start office rumours to sow discord and erode company loyalty. Slip and fall on a stair, go on extended paid medical leave. When fired, sue for wrongful termination, crowdfund the legal fees
That's a fair strategy if you actually can organize with other people at your work to do things like that. But it still does rely on having enough stability to get fired and not end up homeless while getting a new job or trying to sue. Crowdfunding can work if you happen to get lucky and your story gets picked up by lots of people, but it can also reach no one and leave you with nothing. So at the end of the day it's gonna come down to organizing, if only there was some kind of organized body of workers you could form to fight policies that are bad for people in general along with being bad for the workers.
Anyone who advocates for ostracizing fellow workers indiscriminately is doing it in order to keep the working class bogged down in endless internal feuds instead of organizing. Solidarity is the only solution.
Turbo tax made 1.6 BILLION in income. And that's not enough. They need to lobby and change the landscape of the countries tax system to generate even more profit on top of the profit they already made.
This isn't capitalism anymore this is something else entirely. It's a metal disorder. A disease.
This isn’t capitalism anymore this is something else entirely.
That's the thing, it is capitalism. It's always been about those who have more exploiting those who have less.
The problem is this generation of workers has been duped into believing that corporate profits are a good thing, rather than an indication of workers getting taken advantage of.
It's all bass-ackwards by design. I stopped trying to find rhyme or reason and just settled on "most people are dumb as shit."
Capitalism demands that line must always go up.
Line goes up means businesses are taking advantage of customers.
Line goes down means customers are taking advantage of businesses.
Why are customers cheering when line goes up and angry when line goes down? Oh yeah, they're useful idiots.
Well also, most people have been forced into a retirement system that makes line go up make everyday person happy. Cutting off the nose to something...
And this is just taxes. Capital also do this with our health, water, air, etc.
There's... there's a tax on taxes??
They might call it something like a convenience fee.
That's called bribery in my country. It's disgusting and very prevalent here but at least we don't embellish the idea with polite terminology 😂
So, just so I get this right, it's no longer possible to file your taxes for free anymore?
Not exactly.
There's still freefile (where private companies that offer tax prep software give away free access to people, usually within certain limits such as a maximum yearly income or complexity, such as only W2s, but not W2s and also investment income) but Direct File, which is where the IRS was essentially just making their own proper, standardized software to do what these private companies would, that would be entirely made for and offered by the government for free, is the thing being potentially shut down here.
Imagine paying to file taxes, lmao
Thankfully genocide joe opened up free taxes to everybody and put those leeches out of business!
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It is funny that it's only an issue in Lemmy that Trump is doing it. Meanwhile the IRS has been stuck doing this for decades because of corporate lobbying from Intuit.
This as much of a regression to about 2023. When America was already behind on tax filing since the 1980s compared to every other country. Even the "shithole" nations Trump hates have had better tax systems for their citizens.
They literally bribe to Democrats more than Republicans, fucking hilarious. Helps explain why Congress won't do anything.
your political system is already based on legalized bribery and this is where you draw the line? lmao. Lobbying has destroyed america for a century.
It was founded on lies and lobbying. Remember “taxation without representation”? Americans were on a 90% tax discount compared to the British. America was founded off the back of the particularly idiotic, greedy and gullible, and they’ve continued on that path to present. And some fool gave them weapons.
This is from 1889. Literally nothing has changed. Go back 1000 years and it's the same fucking shit. Even 3000 years ago in Egypt. It's always rich vs everybody else just in different outfits.
Legalized bribery is only bad when the other team is in office. When your team is bribed, it's handy so they can run again in 4 years. Just don't ask them to do any campaign promises that go against their donors.
What other team? A non shit country has like 10 parties that come and go regularly as time moves on.
If you believe everything should come with a price, you should vote for those who will give you the most money for voting for them, which is probably the democrats.