🔗 Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers - The American Prospect:

According to a report by the Associated Press this week, the IRS is moving to shut down its free tax filing program known as Direct File, with employees working on the program told to stall work on future iterations. The news comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and the biggest player in tax preparation software, spent years tirelessly fighting any attempt by the government to bring the nightmarish American system of tax collection into line with European nations that have streamlined most citizens’ filing process down to the click of a button.

It is important to remember that the reason filing personal tax returns is complicated and annoying is that companies like Intuit—who profit off the whole system—have spent a lot of money to make it that way.