{"id":270,"date":"2018-04-18T17:45:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=270"},"modified":"2018-04-18T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T17:45:50","slug":"filing-taxes-could-be-free-and-simple-but-hr-block-and-intuit-are-still-lobbying-against-it-propublica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&amp;R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It. \u2014 ProPublica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"at_zurlpreview\">\n<h2>Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&amp;R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It. \u2014 ProPublica<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"display: none;\">Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&amp;R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It. \u2014 ProPublica<\/h3>\n<p class=\"imgp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.propublica.org\/legacy\/images\/ngen\/gypsy_og_image\/20170320-tax-filing-1200x630.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/assets.propublica.org\/legacy\/images\/ngen\/gypsy_og_image\/20170320-tax-filing-1200x630.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgd\">The makers of TurboTax and other online systems spent millions lobbying last year, much of it directed toward a bill that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgs\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"external\">www.propublica.org\/article\/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&amp;R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It. \u2014 ProPublica Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&amp;R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It. \u2014 ProPublica The makers of TurboTax and other online systems spent millions lobbying last year, much of it directed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&amp;R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It. \u2014 ProPublica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,15,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}