Intuit seems to be worried. Shortly after this story was published, Rick Heineman, the company’s communications VP, emailed The Verge with an aggressive statement calling the IRS’s pilot “redundant” and “half-baked.”
“The Direct File scheme is a solution in search of a problem,” he wrote, adding that it could end up “costing billions of dollars in taxpayer money.”
“Yeah you morons! Don’t use the free tools that the govt provides you! Pay us to do it!”
“Yeah you morons! Don’t use the free tools that the govt provides you! Pay us to do it!”
hes literally pointing out the problem with their own product…“redundant”,“solution in search of problem”, “costs taxpayers stupid money”.
… dude theres 4 fingers point back at you.
And the last one is flipping him off.