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Then there things in the tax code like "Carried Interest" taxed at 15 % protected by the large campaign contributions made by Wall Street. Some members of our population are more equal than others.

No matter how you create a tax law, there will always be winners and losers, due to the complex makeup of the population.

This! (And it always gave me a little chuckle when they, almost 100% of the time, called it the "unearned" income credit.)

"The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit opened more than 2,550 criminal investigations, identified over $31 billion from tax and financial crimes, and saw a 90.6% conviction rate on cases accepted for prosecution during fiscal year 2022, even as its agents came under political attack, according to a report released Thursday." "The conviction rate in fiscal 2022 was similar to other fiscal years. Of the over 2,500 criminal cases initiated, 71.7% of investigations were tax or tax-related crimes. The remaining crimes included financial crimes tied to narcotics, human smuggling, child pornography, bank secrecy and money laundering. Lee noted that in April, IRS-CI led the takedown of Hydra, one of the largest darknet marketplaces of narcotics and other illicit goods in the history of the U.S. government, and in February it seized $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from the Bitfinex hack of 2016. "That was the largest single financial seizure in the history of government," said Lee." "IRS-CI also handled 840 cases of COVID fraud in recent years and is just shy of 400 indictments, part of a 98.9% conviction rate in that area, with an average sentence of three years for the 180 cases sentenced to date."

I learned a long time ago that tax policy will never be fair, as "fair" is a subjective term.

Kathy, remind your sales rep that it costs more to lure in a new customer than to keep a current customer. You may have to threaten to walk away; have a software to cite, such as TaxAct, and their price to quote. Push back.

We have Subaru Outbacks, have had several in fact, in pricey Fairfield County, CT, where everyone buys Subarus for their nannies to use!

Yep, I get upset too...then I look at what I am getting, what the software does for me, and what the cost of alternatives are (not just in $$ but also in time learning the new systems) and I just swallow hard an charge my credit card. Tom

I have been with ATX for over 25 years. I was paying 1183.00 I was guaranteed this price for so many years now this year it is over $2,000 and I noted to them online that the price is 1579.00 but he is telling me that is only if I was a new customer. To me they care about new customers not there customers with them for so many years?

Unfortunately our elected representatives put off dealing with extenders until very late in the year or even worse early next year.