<story><title>TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-secures-141-million-millions-americans-deceived-turbotax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>How about instead of fining them, we just create a free tax filing website at the IRS to spite them?  $141MM is just the cost of doing business, and that&amp;#x27;s ridiculous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>It already exists:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.irs.gov&amp;#x2F;filing&amp;#x2F;free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.irs.gov&amp;#x2F;filing&amp;#x2F;free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re below the threshold I think it should be similar to TurboTax &amp;amp; etc, while the Fillable Forms one is the same as the paper forms.</text></comment>
<story><title>TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-secures-141-million-millions-americans-deceived-turbotax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>How about instead of fining them, we just create a free tax filing website at the IRS to spite them?  $141MM is just the cost of doing business, and that&amp;#x27;s ridiculous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db65edfc7996</author><text>Even better is to have the IRS to automatically calculate your tax each year. Send a postcard with the results, if you disagree, you do the entire filing yourself. Planet Money[0] did a story about California&amp;#x27;s attempt years ago. Conservatives vetoed the legislation because they think taxes should be painful.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;sections&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;709656642&amp;#x2F;episode-760-tax-hero&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;sections&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;709656642&amp;#x2F;epis...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>