Nearly 90% of filers pay for help with their returns.
Delaware's judges in public comments like those of Judge Laster and from Leo Strine, head of the Chancery Court are signalling that they will begin cutting awards of legal fees to those lawyers who bring copy-and-paste suits that merely win a quick extra disclosure or two.That might deter the most egregious "frequent filers".
"Filers are responsible for the truthfulness of their filings," it explained.
It may seem odd for a company like Intuit to lobby against such a system, seeing as it (like many of its competitors) already offers free tax software for filers with easy returns.
It also means that NetApp's storage units, called "filers", can be supported and backed up using a variety of software, rather than the proprietary (and expensive) tools needed to run a SAN.To start with, EMC and NetApp did not compete head to head.
The leader there is Intuit's TurboTax software, which is used by about 20% of tax filers.
With some success: its software sales are growing by double-digits each year, says Jason Houseworth, the firm's head of digital products.This year, Block has allowed filers of the 1040EZ, the simplest kind of tax return, to download an iPhone or Android smartphone app and file both federal and state taxes at no cost.
On Taobao, the Chinese eBay, patent writers and filers advertise their services for as little as 700 yuan for individuals or 2,000 yuan for corporations.
Bankers, brokers and lawyers, after all, are required to know their customers.But if the SEC were to adopt an elaborate system to screen filers, it would be adding to the cost and hassle of participating in the capital markets.
(In the final analysis, as SCOTUS blog points out, it's also hard to see how the logic of the White House's case would not ultimately extend to all other states with gay-marriage bans).Of course, the Supreme Court may well ignore the pleas from the White House, as well as the various other filers of amicus briefs.
(Effective tax rates on the richest 400 filers fell from 30% to just 17%; both are mainly due to reductions in the capital-gains tax).
