Monday, April 6, 2015

 For this week we had to look at a Turbo Tax article and the one I have chosen is http://www.wsj.com/articles/turbotax-suspends-e-filings-on-fraud-concerns-1423269033. In this article there are a couple things that caught my attention. The first one is that they stopped accepting Turbo Tax due to false claims. The second thing is the reaction from honest and possibly dishonest people. The third thing is the fact that they should have expected something like this to happen.

When Turbo Tax stopped accepting the tax claims it was due to the fact of false claims. When this happened people freaked because this was a free way to do your taxes. No one really wants to pay to do their taxes because no one really likes losing money. I do see why they stopped, but at the same time they could have just done better scans so honest people didn’t have to suffer.

The second thing that got me was the reaction. Many people complained on Facebook and other sites about how they just filed theirs. I was one who complained because I don't have the money to go get them done and not doing your taxes is bad. They did start taking them again though which made things easier, but it still bothered me how we can't have nice things because of bad people.

the third thing is why didn't they expect something like this. I mean when you make something illegal to do it gets done anyways. You outlaw drugs they sell them on the street and out of their homes. You can't just ban something and then say it won't happen. As I wish that was possible it just isn't and thats were common sense comes in. As smart at the government claims they are you would think that this wouldn't even be a problem. This is money your dealing with and greed is terrible thing to have because it will make you do not so smart things.

With these things that are in this article it makes me wonder were this world is going. Like my family says when something goes wrong in the world it’s going to hell in a handbag. I do wonder how they get away with this and if they got caught at all. The problem was fixed and Turbo Tax started taking the claims again, but I can see this happening next year as well

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