Justin Elliott

Justin Elliott is an American journalist. He has worked with ProPublica since 2012 where he writes about business and economics. His work on TurboTax maker Intuit won a Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in history and classics.

Elliott has been reporting on free filing of income tax returns with the IRS for nine years.

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  • I think it's an interesting story of privatization of government services and how that's played out over time. The history here is 20 years ago during the George W. Bush administration, the IRS was actually considering offering its own official tax prep service. And the private tax prep industry didn't want that to happen. And we ended up with this sort of strange hybrid system that we're living in today.
The company will send up to $90 apiece to more than 4 million people who paid for TurboTax software even though they were eligible to receive it for free.

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