Can only say: Screw you, Intuit.
The tax prep industry spent more than $93 million on federal lobbying to prevent direct file since the 2003 launch of the Free File Program.
“Direct File is not free tax preparation, but rather a thinly veiled scheme where billions of taxpayer dollars will be unnecessarily used to pay for something already completely free of charge today — free to the taxpayer and actually free for the government,” said Intuit’s spokesperson Tania Mercado