![]() ![]() ![]() H&R Block came under fire after congressional Democrats last week released a report stating that it was one of three large tax preparation firms that sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta and Google over the course of at least two years. H&R Block said in a statement the direct e-file pilot “continues to be a solution in search of a problem.”Ĭiting the free-filing options for Americans under a certain income threshold through the existing Free File Alliance, H&R Block said, “this pilot is unnecessary and faces significant barriers to providing comprehensive tax preparation services.” “An IRS direct-to-e-file system is redundant and will not be free – not free to build, not free to operate, and not free for taxpayers,” Plummer said, adding that it “will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars.” IRS officials have estimated individual taxpayers pay an average of $140 preparing their tax returns each year.ĭerrick Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit, stressed the free options that already were available. That program consists of a public-private partnership of tax software companies that offers free services to certain taxpayers outside of the IRS website.Īdditionally, anyone can prepare and mail in their taxes for free, but the tax code is so complex that almost 50% of Americans use a tax prep company. ![]() A Government Accountability Report in April 2022 found that 70% of taxpayers were eligible to use an existing free-file program but just 3% actually used the service. ![]()
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