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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Another Year Would Enable Direct File to Prove Its Worth to The IRS And Congress

How did you file your tax return this year? Paid a preparer? Bought software? Did you, like me, use the fillable forms on the Internal...
April 29, 2024Janet Holtzblatt
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Lawmakers Keep Targeting Tax Breaks Of Those They Disagree With

Three progressive senators and a representative have sent a letter to the tax prep firm Intuit demanding to know how it uses the research and...
January 11, 2024Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Why Should We Have To Pay Somebody To Help Us File An Individual Income Tax Return?

The growing war between the IRS and the commercial tax preparation industry over the agency’s efforts to create a free, in-house tax filing system got...
August 10, 2023Howard Gleckman