Tax Prep Groups, Intuit Rebuff Warren’s Challenges Over Lobbying

Tax prep advocates pushed back on a letter sent this week by a pair of Democrats accusing them of lobbying against an IRS-run pilot and seeking more details on their hiring practices, revenue, and lobbying expenditures.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) sent letters to H&R Block and Intuit, and industry advocates the Free File Alliance and American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights, citing Warren’s recent report that accused tax prep companies of violating taxpayer privacy and accused the groups of deliberately sabotaging an existing Free File program. Advocates and companies pushed back on that, pointing to individual ...