Recreating the API seems doable? If we can recreate dead MMO servers…
Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoMore likely they’ll just turn off or unpublish the API that it depends on.
errer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 day ago
What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 days 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
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.