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IRS Done with TurboTax Free Filing Easier for Taxpayers
ProPublica made a report on tax sins which were carried by TurboTax and other companies that they should offer free filing to qualifying taxpayers, those who make $69,000 a year or less.
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that tax filing companies with which it has agreements to use its free filing tools are now prompted not to hide those specific programs from their clients online.
They are now required to make free filing easier for the taxpayers and should make the most transparent work for them.
The addendum to the deal is known as Free File that has long misled taxpayers who are eligible to file for free into paying. It also said that their free file offering should be available “from an organic internet search.”
Under these new changes, participating companies also have to standardize the naming convention of their Free File version as the “IRS Free File program delivered by [product name].” In the past seasons, a lot of tax filers reported being confused by the difference between, for example, TurboTax Free and TurboTax Free File.
H&R Block, together with TurboTax, was reported that they were masking the free programs. However, in an email, they wrote that “to support the IRS Free File program and will again participate in the program as recently amended for the upcoming tax season.”
Intuit, the TurboTax-maker, didn’t respond for comment. Still, last week they posted a blog regarding the said amendments. They said, “strongly supports these changes to the Free File program and associated Free File offerings because they increase the focus on the taxpayer experience.”
They also mentioned that they are committed to providing free tax preparation and filing for those who need it the most despite attempts by some recent media coverage to suggest otherwise.
Intuit is currently facing many lawsuits and investigations regarding whether they are deceiving their customers. The company said that the accusations are baseless.
ProPublica’s CEO, Sasan Goodarzi, during an interview said that the claims were for “was intended to be [in] the best interest of taxpayers so they were more fully informed about their options and could choose what they felt was best for them.”
In a statement by the IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig regarding the said amendment said, “continues to show the partnership we enjoy with the Free File partners and the commitment we both share in helping taxpayers since the program’s creation 18 years ago.”
Furthermore, he exclaimed, “The improved process will make Free File stronger and give taxpayers another reason to consider this valuable software option,” Rettig added.
“The IRS and FFI will also continue to work together to identify and explore ways to better help low- to moderate-income taxpayers and to pursue meaningful opportunities to enhance taxpayer awareness and use of the Free File Program beyond the 2020 filing season.”
Hopefully, these will give the tax filers more ease and understanding as to what and how they would file for this season.
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CROWN GOOSE LAUNCHES A 6 STAR HOTEL GRAND MERCURE ROOM PACKAGE
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Yongsan Dragon City Hotel is a part of Accor Hotel Group from France, and is the largest hotel in Korea with 1,700 rooms, 11 restaurants and bars. The hotel can accommodate up to 4,900 people. Yongsan Dragon City includes four brands: Grand Mercure, Novotel Suites, Novotel Ambassador, and ibis Styles Ambassador.
Crown Goose Suite Room Package is located in Grand Mercure, known as a 6-star hotel from the Accor Hotel Group. Grand Mercure has upto 3 bedrooms, full kitchen facility, and indoor golf course and an access to executive floor lounge.
Grand Mercure’s Crown Goose package room is decorated with royal gold color, which symbolizes success, elegance, and royal authority. This Grand Mercure Suite room displays the top 0.05% of Crown Goose clients’ favorite bedding items. The room package also includes gift box of towel sets.
Crown Goose, a global eiderdown brand has showcased “Crown Goose Room Package” in Hilton hotels before. Hilton’s ocean suite room, the highest room in Hilton accommodated a number of celebrities.
Located in the heart of Beverly Hills, Crown Goose is a goose down brand loved by the world’s top clients and super riches. Crown Goose’s recent clients included New York Manhattan Super Rich’s Residence, 15 Hudson Yards and many Beverly Hills mansions. Thanks to these facts, Crown Goose has established itself as a high-end luxury goose down comforter among the wealthy.
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PENINSULA Unveils World’s First Official 8K Main Trailer!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020.
Four years after ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’, Connect with the survivors of the ‘PENINSULA’!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020. The trailer of PENINSULA, a 2020 Cannes Film Festival’s official invitation film, depicts the struggles of those who have survived in different ways for four years after TRAIN TO BUSAN.
PENINSULA is an action blockbuster depicting the last battle for survival between the people left behind in the ruins of the Korean peninsula four years after Train to Busan. The upcoming PENINSULA trailer ahead of its worldwide premiere release in the summer of 2020 is full of such big scale action sequences and explosive thrills together with fast-sounding gunfights and car-chasing scenes.
In particular, the official trailer of PENINSULA, which has 8K image quality for the first time in the world, meets the technical specifications of all digital devices and delivers a high level of visual completeness to moviegoers around the world. The 8K trailer, which is 16 times clearer than the FULL HD image quality and 4 times clearer than the 4K image quality, can be enjoyed in 8K, 4K and HD according to the device’s specifications if the 8K main trailer via the NEW’s official channel on YouTube is selected as the highest specification (4320p 8K). Especially, viewers can watch them with a perfect picture quality without an extra setup from the YouTube app on Smart TVs that support either 4K or 8K.
This super high-definition trailer was created through the collaboration of NEW’s digital business corporation NEW ID and SK TELECOM. Among the media-focused core technologies of AI-based Post Production, a joint enterprise between the two companies, the technology called Supernova is a media upscaling solution (up to 8K) to improved quality of image and sound source based on the AI’s deep learning algorithms while maintaining the quality level of the original.
Movie Information
– Title: PENINSULA
– Director: YEON Sangho (Psychokinesis | Seoul Station | Train to Busan)
– Genre: Disaster, Zombie
– Cast: GANG Dongwon (Illang: The Wolf Brigade | A Violent Prosecutor)
LEE Junghyun (Love, Again | The Battleship Island)
– World Sales: CONTENTS PANDA (NEW)
– Production: REDPETER FILMS (Birthday | Psychokinesis | Train to Busan)
– Expected Release Date: Summer 2020
– Logline: 4 years after the inexplicable disaster, they’re returning to the godforsaken land!
– Synopsis
: Jung-seok barely managed to escape from the unprecedented disaster in Korea 4 years ago and lives in exile in Hong Kong by himself. He is given a lucrative chance to return to Korea to retrieve large bags of cash left abandoned in the streets of Seoul. His mission is infiltrated ruined city of Seoul and secure the target truck before the sunrise, then return to Hong Kong unscathed. But he and his team are ambushed by a militia known as Unit 631 and vicious zombie hordes. During his desperate struggle to survive, Jung-seok experiences a moment of deus ex machina as survivor Min-jung and her family save him from brink of death. Together, they formulate one last plan to escape the peninsula for good. The prodigal son, the survivor and the deranged, their bloody battle begins!
