The IRS has an alternative to TurboTax. But will that widen the racial wealth gap?

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that it will begin a pilot program during the 2024 tax season to start preparing and filing Americans’ taxes in-house, relieving them of the need to use an accountant or tax preparation software such as TurboTax. We have heard considerable discussion about artificial intelligence and its use in our society. I applaud the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Upturn and the two dozen partner organizations that are calling on the Biden administration to take concrete steps to address the systemic racia...