Elizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long been a vocal opponent of privatizing the tax filing system—i.e., how things are now. When ProPublica completed an investigation in 2019 showing major tax giants like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block intentionally deterred people from accessing free filing from its sites, she and other senators called for the private tax preparers to issue refunds to taxpayers they tricked into paying for the otherwise free filing they were eligible for. 

Warren grilled H&R Block and Intuit on their lobbying efforts when the two left the Free File Alliance in 2020 and 2021, respectively. She grilled them again in 2023 and in 2024 on their lobbying efforts and on their Read Entire Article