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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
The success of #TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. #government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made #tax #filing #simple and #free for most citizens.
For more than 20 years, Intuit has waged a sophisticated, sometimes covert war to prevent the government from doing just that, according to internal company and IRS documents and interviews with insiders.
The company unleashed a battalion of #lobbyists and hired top officials from the agency that regulates it.
From the beginning, Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while #stifling it in Washington.
Indeed, employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be “compromise without integrity.”
Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “#encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier