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Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data (themarkup.org)

submitted 1 year ago by pound_heap@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Might be old news for some... TLDR: Some big online tax prep sites have tracker pixels from Meta and Google, which collect things like income, filing status, tax credits, etc.

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[–] pound_heap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it might be true for federal taxes, but US tax system is complicated...

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

IDK the tax software already also does state taxes too, and asks about at least some relevant city taxes. The software can be made - we have it already. It just doesn't seem like the government couldn't run the same stuff we do at home really.