The dating game that does your taxes

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A video game where you go on dates and also prepare your federal tax return? We obviously had to play. Plus the IRS's 20 year journey to make tax prep free.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:07.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:14.1	I'm Wayland Wong, joined today by producer extraordinaire, Brittany Cronin.
0:19.8	Hello Wayland, happy tax day.
0:22.2	Happy tax day, right back at ya.
0:24.6	Why thank you.
0:25.8	You know, I could go on and on about what a drag doing your taxes is.
0:30.8	But I figured today we could shake things up and instead, let's imagine a world where
0:35.8	doing your taxes is free and fun and sexy.
0:41.2	Wow, you are spicing things up today, Brittany.
0:45.1	When you first told me about this story, I thought it cannot be done, but I think you're
0:49.4	gonna show us all otherwise.
0:51.6	I found the exception to the rule.
0:53.5	So there's this new video game called Tax Heaven 3000.
0:57.1	It's a game where you go on dates with this cute anime girl with pink hair who helps you
1:01.7	do your taxes for free.
1:03.4	Oh, I see these two pink bubbly hearts that says Tax Heaven 3000, the dating sim that
1:08.4	does their taxes.
1:09.7	Yes, love and taxes forever my heart.
1:12.0	Oh, she's now she's got hearts for eyes and she's like spinning around a copy machine.
1:16.2	There are 10, 40 forms flying everywhere.
1:19.7	The girl herself has this long pink hair and big blue eyes and it's just very 2000s.
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