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On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 05:12:43 AM Curt wrote:
> On 2020-03-10, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > But I didn't know there was a free filing system, Block sure isn't
> > advertiseing it, I think they much prefer to keep on charging me around
> > $300 to put their stamp on it.  so I may investigate it, thanks for the
> > heads up.
> 
> This sums up the situation in the USA IMO:
> 
> https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-blo
> ck-intuit-lobbying-against-it
> 
>  “Let’s call the so-called Free File Alliance what it really is — a
>  front for tax prep companies who use it as a gateway to sell expensive
>  products no one would even need if we’d just made it easier for people
>  to pay their taxes,” said Warren in a statement to ProPublica. Warren’s
>  office put out a report on the issue last year that repeatedly cited
>  our coverage.
> 
> No member of the hoi polloi in the Gallic regions uses or requires an
> external software company to do their taxes, nor does anyone I know or
> whom I've ever known here pay the least centime to get them done (not
> rubbing shoulders much with any millionaires as part of the 99); the
> French equivalent of the IRS (the "fisc") provides free, official
> software online, pre-filled for the taxpayer. And *they* calculate what
> you owe, if anything.  You just fill in the numbers, if they're not
> already filled in for you.
> 
> At any rate, the H & R Blocks et. al. obviously have a vested,
> mercantile interest in keeping the entire process bewilderingly
> complicated, as well as exclusively within the domain of the private
> sector.

Which is pretty much the same situation for medical insurers in the US.

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Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 18:20 +0100
  Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-06 18:30 +0100
  Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-03-06 18:40 +0100
    Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 19:00 +0100
      Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-06 19:10 +0100
        Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 20:20 +0100
          Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2020-03-06 20:40 +0100
            Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-06 20:50 +0100
              Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-03-06 21:00 +0100
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                Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-03-07 09:50 +0100
        Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-03-06 20:50 +0100
          Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-06 21:00 +0100
      Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 19:10 +0100
  Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F) deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-07 08:20 +0100
  Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan  LIDE 700F) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-03-07 15:10 +0100
    Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-07 15:30 +0100
  OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner …  LIDE 700F) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-09 15:10 +0100
    Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner …  LIDE 700F) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-03-09 15:20 +0100
      Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a  scanner … LIDE 700F) Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-03-09 19:00 +0100
      Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a  scanner … LIDE 700F) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-03-10 14:30 +0100
    Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a  scanner … LIDE 700F) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-03-09 16:00 +0100
      Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner …  LIDE 700F) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-09 18:10 +0100
        Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a  scanner … LIDE 700F) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-03-09 20:30 +0100
          Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner …  LIDE 700F) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-10 05:10 +0100
            Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner … LIDE 700F) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-10 05:40 +0100
              Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a  scanner … LIDE 700F) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-03-10 10:20 +0100
                Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner   … LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-10 14:00 +0100
                Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner   … LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-10 14:50 +0100
                Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a  scanner  … LIDE 700F) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-03-10 16:40 +0100
    Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner   … LIDE 700F) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-09 17:50 +0100

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