TurboTax

And we're already seeing examples of people using it to cancel subscriptions that they're not using, get refunds.

And so there might be some economic calculus where it looks more like paying for TurboTax than browsing Instagram Reels potentially.

But how do you think about monetization?

ChatGPT with its subscription service proved that consumers will pay if there's enough value.

but okay.

Damn you, TurboTax.

What does this look like, though, on the voter rolls? Basically, any of us that were hoping for the Save America Act or any other reforms between now and Election Day this year, it's done, right? That was the last chance?

Yeah, the Save America Act is not going to happen, but I would say things to be encouraged by are the fact that the Department of Homeland Security is using whatever tools they have, which include holding back money for these states that say, listen, we want to run citizenship verification through ironically i believe their database is called the safe database uh you know states are states are not willingly compliant with that some states are not however ironically you know they do give the same information to this uh other database called eric which is supposed to be something that keeps you know makes it eliminates double registrants gets rid of non-citizens but it doesn't do that at all it actually is sort of like a get out the vote operation for democrat voters it's a whole scandal that we could talk about So the Democrat states that don't participate with Homeland Security are hypocritical.

They talked a lot of it in their shareholder meeting this week, really going after mid-sized businesses.

Increasing financial services that they have and doing the assisted tax preparation, which for one, since I use TurboTax myself, I would be happy with that.

But really embracing AI right now and doing their Intuit intelligence platform to really do kind of soup to nuts for businesses across the board, especially midsize businesses.

We've seen a lot of recovery in software names in the aftermath of the SaaSpocalypse, particularly within the past month.

They're trying to put things out that will help bring customers in.

They've got free businesses that they can use in some of their software items or very low costs that they're doing to try to bring more customers in, and they're trying to get people across more elements.

You don't just use TurboTax, but you use QuickBooks or you use MailChimp or many of their items.

So they're working on that, but it hasn't been as successful as they wanted it to be.

For example, instead of renting movies from Blockbuster or buying DVDs and CDs, we got into Netflix and Spotify.

Instead of doing taxes manually, we got into TurboTax.

So there was a lot of changing in the way things were done, but not the task itself.

Today, I think we are even changing what needs to be done from level up.

You don't need to file any of the state and any with the federal.

Just when you report your taxes at the end of the year, you just literally write into TurboTax or tell your accountant, hey, my business made this much money or it lost this much money.

There's like additional form you can file in your taxes that in a previous year, you probably just click skip on or doesn't apply to me.

That's all.

Then what? Then what's going to be the excuse? Because if you're saying that that's the reason, let's go.

In fact, we'll go into TurboTax right now and we'll do your taxes.

Then we're going to go to the airport.

Oh, but yeah, but you know, once my taxes are done, then I'm going to have to, oh gosh, what do I do about this? It's always something.