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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC's "predetermined decision."

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[–] nous@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

Because of the lobbying these tax companies are doing to keep the tax system so complex you need to hire them to do your taxes for you. If it were easy to do your taxes then these companies would not need to exist - and they cannot have that.