'Marketplace' quotes Professor Ventry about House vote to continue Free File

Professor Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. spoke to American Public Media’s “Marketplace” program on April 10 about the Internal Revenue Service’s controversial Free File tax return preparation program, which the House just voted to extend. A “woeful 1.6 percent” of all federal returns were filed through the online service in 2018, Ventry observed.

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.