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		maxerickson on April 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? Do you mean indemnity against errors in the return, or would you also include indemnity against missed information? (The latter could conceivably include information that a taxpayer intentionally sought to hide from the IRS)

fnordfnordfnord on April 15, 2015 [–]

Indemnity against mistakes made by the IRS for sure; against the taxpayer intentionally hiding income, not so much. Then there is the whole problem of determining intent, but that's already a problem.

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