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How the Tax Prep Industry Makes You PayProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.Last fall, Intuit’s longtime CEO Brad Smith embarked on a farewell tour of the company’s offices around the world. Smith had presided over 11 years of explosive growth, a period when Intuit had secured its place in the Silicon Valley pantheon, and the tour was like a long party.In Ontario, employees wore T-shirts with Smith’s quasi-spiritual sayings: “Do whatever makes...

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