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January 15, 2010
When some commenters said that the new tax preparer regulations favored big outfits like H&R Block, others saw no evidence of a "conspiracy" against small preparers. If there is no conspiracy, there's at least a conspiracy to make it look like a conspiracy:
Mark Ernst, in December 2007, was chief executive officer of H&R Block, the nation's largest tax-preparation company. Thirteen months later, once President Obama took office, Ernst was named a deputy commissioner at the Internal Revenue Service, where he would spend his first year drafting new regulations for tax preparers -- regulations that H&R Block welcomes and market analysts say will benefit the company.
The mom-and-pop tax prep shops will find that reassuring.
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Comments
Joe,
This reminds me of the so called Cheney-Haliburton conspiracy.
It went something like this:
Cheney was a former Haliburton executive, therefore, Haliburton got lucrative government contracts, not because Bush wanted to choose the best contractor for the job, but because he wanted to make Dick happy.
Of course, those making that claim simply ignored the fact that Haliburton was also President Clinton's government contractor of choice.
That a government official used to work for a particular company or in a particular industry, doesn't mean that he will govern in a way that benefits that company or industry.
In fact, the bias could just as easily work the other way. The government official may have an axe to grind with his former employer and may initiate policies that hurt rather than help the industry.
Posted by: Peter | January 18, 2010 5:00 PM