Financial expert’s trouble with taxes
US Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner ran into trouble during his confirmation hearings because he had been negligent about paying certain taxes. One thing that came out was that he was using the tax preparation software TurboTax. CNET comments:
His mention of TurboTax as he tried to explain away back taxes during a confirmation hearing last week highlights two common problems in IT: users vs. software, and the “garbage in, garbage out” conundrum.
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