While doing my taxes I was wondering why there isn't a startup in this space.
Turbotax:
- Has a terrible UX/UI
- It has to update itself with a 100mb payload every time you open it from Jan 1 - Apr 15
- Doesn't actually advise you how to plan for your taxes. It's reactive to what you did.
- Uses shady pricing and lots of versions to get you to spend more instead of just being straightforward.
- Works hard to make you dependent on them
When you hear about the rich only paying 10%, 15% or whatever low bracket; they did it by putting their money in the right places and sometimes investing or spending it at the right time.
Where is the startup that is basically my accountant without the cost? Can we really not programmatically understand tax code and financial strategy?
> Can we really not programmatically understand tax code
Isn't that what TurboTax does? I don't know about a bunch of different versions, but the online version works just fine for me, and is pretty snappy. Sure, they upsell you to file your state taxes, but the $30 or whatever is worth it to me to avoid the duplicate work.
Their lobbying is a separate issue, but I have no problems with the actual product.
Turbotax: - Has a terrible UX/UI - It has to update itself with a 100mb payload every time you open it from Jan 1 - Apr 15 - Doesn't actually advise you how to plan for your taxes. It's reactive to what you did. - Uses shady pricing and lots of versions to get you to spend more instead of just being straightforward. - Works hard to make you dependent on them
When you hear about the rich only paying 10%, 15% or whatever low bracket; they did it by putting their money in the right places and sometimes investing or spending it at the right time.
Where is the startup that is basically my accountant without the cost? Can we really not programmatically understand tax code and financial strategy?