• Infynis@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      The rationale is the tax companies want it this way, and pay politicians a lot of money to keep it this way

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      I’m not an expert by any means, but my understanding is there is a “tax accounting lobby” that works hard to prevent any measures to simplify it, because they would go out of business. Intuit and others.