L.A. City Atty. Mike Feuer is going after Intuit and Block, accusing them of concealing free tax services from their customers. More from columnist hiltzikm here:
H&R Block said in an emailed statement that it’s “proud to have helped millions of Americans file their returns under the Free File program” and that it has “updated our practices to make H&R Block’s [IRS] Free File offer even easier to find.”
Over the last decade, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Intuit and H&R Block each have spentAdvertisement The commercial tax-prep firms and the conservative anti-tax lobby share incentives to keep tax filing complicated for most Americans; the firms want to build their customer base, the anti-tax warriors want to stoke resentment of the IRS. They’ve both opposed allowing the IRS to prepare taxpayers’ returns for them by sending forms pre-filled with all the information the IRS already has about them.
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