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Title: Parasites of tax law
Review: My accountant says Turbotax didn't calculate the allowable IRA deduction correctly. I don't know whether Turbotax or my accountant is correct. I don't care. I hate taxes. Turbotax doesn't ease that hatred at all. Determination of taxable income has become so absurdly complex that there's no hope of understanding it. Without hope of understanding it, there's no hope that I'll think it fair. When Turbotax takes care of the complexity for me, it merely obscures the complexity, which makes the whole process still less understandable, still more suspicious, and still more unfair. Yet I have to pay them and put up with their stupid rebates (why not just lower the price in the first place and skip the rebate paperwork?), while they make Intuit an indispensable appendage of the IRS, and while Intuit's lobbyist doubtless never objects to further tax law complexity.
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