>Now companies are barred from hiding their free products from search engines such as Google, and a years-old prohibition on the IRS creating its own online filing system has been scrapped.
>Under the new rules, participating companies also have to standardize the naming convention of their Free File version as “IRS Free File program delivered by [product name].”
Respect to ProPublica for their commitment to this issue. I first learned of the Free File deal from their reporting and enjoyed the HN comments on their articles.
On the 20-year fight to stop Americans from doing their taxes for free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21281411
On hiding Free File from search engines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758126
On tax industry lobbying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393758