service from developing their own free to use tax preparation software instead forcing the i.r.s. to work with private tax prep companies like turbo tax and h. and r block on their programs what most people didn't know is that if you make less than sixty six thousand dollars per year in the u.s. you qualify for free use of turbo tax and in our blogs d.i.y. tax products however only three percent of eligible people actually take advantage of it why well it's because of a little group called the free file alliance a lobbying group made up of the top private companies that provide tax prep software companies that have zero incentives to allow the i.r.s. to provide a free version of their product to the public even if the people it's for are the ones who can't afford their product in the first place but most disturbingly the democrats that vowed to protect the interests of the working poor if given control of the house chose to let the bill go through democratic representative roe conn...