Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More likely they’ll just turn off or unpublish the API that it depends on.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that even available right now? Usually for this type of thing you need API keys, which are not included, nor available at all.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use

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      • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Recreating the API seems doable? If we can recreate dead MMO servers…

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    • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.

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      • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, you probably could. Issue is that you can’t self host the IRS. If they aren’t running the service that accepts the data there isn’t much you can do.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use

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• scott@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was my thought too and I did so but it’s been up for over a week now.

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