Professor Ventry Weighs in for The Messenger on 'Free' Filing Confusion

Professor Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. spoke to The Messenger for a Jan. 24 story about the difficulty of discerning whether tax preparation programs and services promoted as “free” actually all.

“You can end up in a place that looks like a free file site or is otherwise advertised as free – because it says ‘free’ all over the place – but it’s not,” Ventry told The Messenger, a prominent online news site that folded unexpectedly in late January.

Professor Ventry is an expert in tax policy and legal ethics. His research interests include tax expenditure analysis, family taxation, professional responsibility and standards of care, tax filing and administration, tax compliance, public finance, and tax and legal history. He is the former chairman of the IRS Advisory Council, and co-author on the casebook, Federal Income Taxation with Martin McMahon Jr., Daniel L. Simmons, and Bradley T. Borden.