Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data – The Markup
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The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup

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.

Original congressional report file

  • NovaPrime@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    Almost as if the entire issue could be avoided and circumvented by having the government handle everything from their end by default since they already have all out tax and income data, but allow those who want to do more complicated filings or individual deductions above the default calculation the option to do so on the back end

      • jmp242
        4·
        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.